GASA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Xenophobia, Edward Said, Debt Bondage
9 Apr 2018
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Pre-lecture questions: (mutiple choice will be seclected from) It is the way the west perceives and essentializes the east as different from itself. What is the name of the thinker who wrote influentially about orientalism in the. Although orientalism is different from racism, it helps us redefine racism as more than hate and as a set of institutions and practices that perpetuate and allow acts of oppression to take place. It is a xenophobic metaphor that references the vaguely ominous fear of eastern menace or threat to the european west. 19 out of 25 cities which will be affected by rising seal levels are in asia: global flood losses are going to increase from . Usd 6 bn in 2005 to usd 52 bn in 2050 in which 13 out 20 top cities are asian: the madras famine (1876-78) under the british empire wiped out 5. 5 million people. It provoked political organizing against colonial economic policies.
