CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Huayi Brothers, Fanta, Postcolonialism
Document Summary
Rise of the west" recent, because before the 18th century, asia was more efficient and doing better. History is written by the winners, assuming western domination, but it can be temporarily. Why is there western dominance: role of contingency coincidences, role of accident, role of conjuncture, multi-causal. Its in the interest of the tahiti to keep up the fanta- sy of the tourists. Negotiated identities: the west put an identity on the people of tahiti, this hasn"t changed since the first time their women made peace", because western military advantage, welcoming women sign of power differential. Hierarchies of civilization: according to race. Knowledge and power: science gets entangled with western domination and colonialism. Imperial legacies: the tahiti still have to cater to the tourists wishes. This image says more of the west, than tahiti itself. Anderson: the nation as imagined community and it preconditions. Political scientist, but is open to the insides of a range of discipline to explain nationalism.
