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Monday November 22 2010Lecture 12: Western hegemony and ontology
PS 2A03: Conflict Transformation
Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
Critical IssuesWestern hegemony and ontology
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Heterosexuality is not normal, its just common.
Dorothy Parker
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Outline
Epistemology and
Ontology
Epistemologies of
Ignorance
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The study of how weknow Study of the nature ofbeing and existence
Epistemology & Ontology
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The epistemology of ignorance is an examination of the
complex phenomenon of ignorance, which has as itsaim identifying different forms of ignorance, examininghow they are produced and sustained, and what rolesthey play in knowledge practices.
Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (2007)
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Especially in the case of racial oppression, a lack of
knowledge or an unlearning of what was previouslyknown often is actively produced for purposes ofdomination and exploitation.
Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (2007)
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women of cover
I mischievously asked whether she had done segmentson the women of Guatemala, Ireland, Palestine, orBosnia when the show covered wars in those regions...
Lila Abu-Lughod (2002)
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...tracing what is not known and the politics of suchignorance should be a key element of epistemological
and social and political analyses, for it has the potentialto reveal the role of power in what is the constructionof what is known and provide a lens for the politicalvalues at work in our knowledge practices.
Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (2007)
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Rabbit Proof Fence
Phillip Noyce (2002)
Doris PilkingtonGarimara (1996)
Many challenging themes
and issues portrayed
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Rabbit Proof Fence
Phillip Noyce (2002)
Doris PilkingtonGarimara (1996)
Many challenging themes
and issues portrayed
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Can we only free Afghan women to be like us or might
we have to recognize that even after liberation fromthe Taliban, they might want different things than wewould want for them?
Lila Abu-Lughod (2002)
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BabaKiueria
Don Featherstone (1986)
Satirical 30 minute film
1987 United Nations
Media Peace Prize
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Burnum Burnum
January 26, 1998
Burnum BurnumDeclaration
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I, Burnum Burnum of the Wurundjeri Tribe, do herebytake possession of England on behalf of the AboriginalCrown of Australia.
Burnum Burnum (1988)
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Summary
Epistemologies of
Ignorance
Western ontology and
hegemony
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Citations & further reading
Lila Abu-Lughod (2002) Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological
Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others,American Anthropologist, Vol. 104,
No. 3: pp. 783-790.
Sullivan, N. & Tuana, N. (eds.) 2007. Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Albany: StateUniversity of New York Press.
Amanda Hess (2010) Rubber Barons: Why Doesnt Your Boyfriend Know Jack About
Contraception? The Sexist/Washington City Paper, March 4.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/04/rubber-barons-why-
doesnt-your-boyfriend-know-jack-about-contraception/
John Ramsland (2004) Bringing up Harry Penrith: Injustice and Becoming Burnum
Burnum The formative years of a Child of the Stolen Generation, Education
Research and Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 4: 94-106
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Citations & further reading
Elvi Whittaker (1994) Public Discourse on Sacredness: The Transfer of Ayers Rock
to Aboriginal Ownership, American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 310-334
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Image sources
Dave Boldingers Cartoons & Stuff
http://www.dbaldinger.com/opinion_cartoons/second_page/dear_world.html
ames Garvin Ellis. Rodney Powell (standing) talks with other sit-in participants at Walgreens drugstore in Nashville,Tennessee, Friday March 25, 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins
Marc Riboud.Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, Saturday,21 October 21, 1967 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir
Shaney Komulainen. Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias 'Freddy Kruger'come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kahnesatake reserve in Oka, Quebec, Saturday September 1, 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis
Babakiueria [DVD cover] http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=738460
Peter Zageris (1989) Portrait of Burnum Burnum, National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-
an9846585
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Video sources
Don Featherstone (1986) BabaKiueria, ABC TV
The Sexist presents: Men explaining birth control (March 3 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NtB_4SRLhlU
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