POLI 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism
21 Nov 2017
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Not overly picky about names, more about conceptual understanding. Higher marks - if you understand the material, explain it clearly and add details. Can be asked about core ideas from each author. Ir starts to borrow ideas from other realms. World is a complicated place, with complicated social phenomenon. To simplify - what are the moving pieces. Pattern socialism around the structure of natural sciences. Social facts: bill only has value because we put value in it. Both can be contested and are affected by our discourse of them. The same physical event can be seen as fighting, bullying, assault, revenge etc. Depends on the social construct in which you define in. Discourse/texts - language as a medium and mechanism of meaning. Deconstruction: looking at a text/discourse and determining purpose, underlying social power etc. Genealogy: looking at historic pathways, and the implications on current discourse. What has happened to make x interesting, or named in a certain way.
