POLS 3160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Structural Violence, Empowered, Sexual Slavery

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3160
• Professor: Candace Johnson

Document Summary

Will be looking at predictable levels of violence* Mohanty is more concerned w agency, opposed to structure: agency: something people have to follow, live by relations (power the speaker has vs the people listening, they way we describe things in writing says things about power. Western feminist (mohanty is an american scholar, although being indian) Discourses construct a singular third world woman; we have 1 idea that. Discourses are described in relations of power pg (cid:883)9 there(cid:495)s a particular type of third world women, and her experiences are. Global north is the (cid:494)majority(cid:495); most people live this way but all women do not go through same experiences shared by all in global south. Says be careful not to look at symbols or cultural expectations, and assume. Mohanty warns us about (cid:494)analytical traps(cid:495) and emphasizes importance of. Don(cid:495)t get a lot of agency from enloe"s analysis. Women(cid:495)s experiences of conflict (cid:523)civil conflict taking place in guatemala.