PSC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Postcolonialism, Western Philosophy
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Gayatri spivak and subaltern theory: western philosophy theorizes about what it calls an abstract subject, however, they are really theorizing about an experience that is particular to the west. This concealed subject pretends it has no geo-political determinations. " : the ability of others" to speak in these frameworks is obliterated, e. g. the. Imperial gaze and logic is being applied to the idea of mental illnesses: can be used as a metaphor for the idea of creating hierarchies between groups of people.
