DEVS 100 Study Guide - Resource Depletion, Soft Power, Deskilling

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: Richard Day

Document Summary

Foucault the unities of discourse" and discursive formations". We must rid ourselves of a whole mass of notions each of which, in its own way, diversifies the theme of continuity. A succession of dispersed events, to link them to one and the same organizing principle, to subject theme to the exemplary power of life. Linked systems of subjects, objects, signifiers, and patterns of regularity. Out of these systems emerge many truths. Must remember there are many different truths and we must hear them all out. Collins excerpt from black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment". White females have an advantage over black females even though they both to deal with sexists. Privilege is defined by relation to the other. Expands the focus of analysis from merely describing the similarities and differences distinguishing these systems of oppression and focuses greater attention on how they interconnect.