Subaltern Ppt

7/21/2019 Subaltern Ppt

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Post

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colonialism

, Subaltern,

Diasporaand Globalization


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Imaginary Identifications

Post colonialism

Subaltern Studies

Diaspora

Multiculturalism

Globalization


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Imaginary identifications

Constructing identities through significant

others and collective narratives

The civilized Europeans identity cannot

exist without the uncivilized other

eg

.the noble savage

Orientalism (Edward Said)

the process

by which the Orient was constructed as an

exotic other

.


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The Self and the Other

Identity

Self

-

concept, Social mores and

national understanding

Val

Plumwoods

categorization

Power Structures and Dualism

(

manXwoman,superiorXinferior,humanxno

nhuman

)

Denial

or back grounding

-

minimization of

contribution to the master

Radical hyper separation negating the

value in the other (mind games)


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The Self and the Other

Relational Definition

the other is

defined in terms of what he/she does

not possess

Instrumentalization or objectification

(Use the services of the other

-

fulfillthe needs of the master)

Homogenization or stereotyping

stripped of all individuality


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Key terms in Subaltern Studies

Colonialism

The Imperialist

expansion of

Europe/dominant/

centered

/control/

extension of control over social,

pedagogical, economic, political and

broadly cultural exchanges

European mother nation

vs

indigenous peoples

Racial inferiority

vs

Exotic otherness

Colonial markers

(fair skin,

cricket,English

)


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Key Terms Post-colonialism study of the effects of

colonialism/how did European nationsconquer and the responses of thesecountries

An initial awareness of the social,psychological and cultural inferiority

Enforced by being in a colonized state

The struggle for ethnic, cultural andpolitical autonomy

A growing awareness of cultural overlapand hybridity


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Key terms

Ambivalence mixed reactions Alterity the state of being different

politically, culturally, linguistically

Agency agency is the capacity ofindividuals to act independently and tomake their own free choices

Essentialism the essence of whatness

of something North IndianSouth Indianetc.

Hegemony Power of the ruling class toconvince other classes that their interestsare the interests of all.


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Key Terms

Mapping Mapping of global spaces. Mapsused as markers to assist the process ofaggression, boundaries, to establish

claims Metanarrative a large cultural story that

seeks to explain within its borders all thelittle local narratives

Nation/nation-state an aggregation ofpeople organized under a singlegovernment/interests are geo-economic.


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Key Terms

Nation/nation-state Nationalinterest is associated with a strugglefor independent, ethnic and cultural

identity

Race the division and classificationof human beings by physical and

biological characteristics (often usedto denote power eg. White mansburden, the Nazis and the Jews)


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Key Terms

Semiotics a system of signs which one knowswhat something is. Cultural semiotics oftenprovide the means by which a group defines itself

Space/Place space represents a geographiclocale, when empty and not being designated

Place is space is made or owned. It involveslandscape,language,environment and culture

agency is the capacity of individuals to act

independently and to make their own free choices


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Subaltern Studies

Started in England in the 1970s

Developed from Gramscis theories ofculture and class politics

Ranajit Guha initiated the project

1970s: focus on workers and peasantmovement

1980s: focus on resistance to state power 1990s: influenced by poststructuralists


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Diaspora

Explores a concept that helps migrants, scholarsand social commentators to experience migration

Return to homeland or homecoming is both literaland metaphorical

(Vikram Seth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra BanerjeeDivakarunni)

Bend it like Beckham, Namesake

Acceptance Conflict

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