SOC 360 Lecture Notes - Deconstruction, Global Governance, Gilles Deleuze

• School: U of S
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 360
• Professor: Darrell Mc Laughlin

Document Summary

Next week we will narrow down the questions for the final. If you didn"t hand in your project it is not late until next tuesday. Justification of taking land from other people: concept of open land, those in alliances with colonizers could receive the best resources, ripples with consequences. Human rights v. cultural relativism: only behaviour needs to be judged on a local, cultural, aspect relativist. Global: fair trade, strategic essentialism: through deconstruction, the other may develop an agenda for social change yet maintain a critical distance and undermine the hegemonic discourse from the inside out, women, race. Edward said"s orientalism: orientalism, a western style of thought that creates a false opposition between the. Orient (east) and the occident (west: east naturalized as inferior to west, academic orientalism, knowledge produced by academics, government experts, anyone writing and producing information on the orient, representations including art, novels, poems, images that make a. Imaginative orientalism distinction between the orient and the occident.