ANTB20H3 Lecture : The politics of livelihood Lec 3.docx
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American, slumdog millionaire stood a lot of contraversary. How are they depicting us, the indians? at the same time one can say the director was very good at representing the people and their politics of poverty, but perhaps there"s a question of who they would hire. Or certain representations that you feel are orientalistic in ways, or other forms of discrimination, or they don"t do that. Ideas of orientalism and questions of power. Power relationships between the who made the movie and where the movie was made. You should have a critical saying; it could be a positive spin, or a negative spin. However take a stance don"t just describe the movie. What we see about the dominican republic we see its not to far from santo domingo. Bokachita, and secondly a town that was providing and supplying sugar. These two sites for him were interesting and important because global tourism is very important to globalization.
