Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ali Mazrui, System On A Chip, Centrism
6 Nov 2016
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Who: south asian, african and south american scholars- franz fanon, edward. Structures current global politics: alternative sources: novels, plays, testimony, oral history, categories: race, gender, class, ect. World traveller: emphatically listen to subaltern and learn from experiences. Why does identity matter: ali mazuri: who has the power to represent us?" culture. European imperialists = created south american, african, asian. Movies, books, music, names, ect: orientalism: west invents the east" as . Are not writers from there and their writings, poetry, analysis, ect. How does racism figure into ir: race and racism= organizing principles. Method: observe theory practice imperialism & colonization. Proxy wars: user colonized for war: hobbes on anarchy. Do not want to end up like these inferiors. Might makes right" against inferior peoples: locke on property & land. Non-euros, idle indians" & non-human blacks": lazy, naked, nomadic. Does not equal rights, property-deserving, political say, ect. Just wars against non-europeans= civilizing, christianizing, ect.
