GS201 Lecture Notes - Post-Structuralism, Bourgeoisie, Iranian Revolution
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Week 10: power and resistance in the post-colonial context . What is the postcolonial: a set of ideas and practices that respond to, and analyze the cultural legacies of colonialism, what is the post" in post-colonialism, frantz fanon: the wretched of the earth 1961. In the name of human rights, the rights of individuals are often trampled it is one thing to speak of these things in the abstract, it is a different thing to actually live it. The colonial world is a compartmentalized world [foucault] the dividing line, the border, is represented by the barracks and the police stations. Colonialism forced the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: who am i: colonialism = a systematic negation of the other person, for fanon, and a furious determination to deny that person attributes of humanity. The colonized world is divided in two : the native sector (quote in reading, the european sector (quote in reading)
