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What is Imperialism?
Any system of domination and subordination organized with an imperial center and a dominated periphery
Ex: Empire: ruled by one supreme being
What is Colonialism?
The practice of acquiring political control overanother country/territory, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting iteconomically
- European colonial Period was the longest periodof colonial rule
- Expansion of empire was an economic (Sugar plantations were exploited)
How did the colonial trade routes affect the world?
They caused major evolutionary jumps were made – animals/horticultural trade across the globe
They stole indigenous knowledge – quinine protect from malaria and they also spread diseases across the world
What is neocolonialism?
The practice of using capitalism, globalization, and cultural forces to control a country (usually former European & U.S. colonies in Africa or Asia) in lieu of direct military or political control
-Existing or past international economic arrangements created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movement of the post-World War II period
-The colonies that were exploited are usually the most disadvantaged
What are some of the methods of control that neocolonialism uses?
- Multinational corporations
-NGOs & development schemes
-International financial institutions
o The world bank
o The international monetary fund
o The world trade organization
o The group of eight
o The world economic forum
What are transnational feminists?
-Intersectional Concerns: how globalization &capitalism affect people across nations, genders, sexualities, classes,ethnicities
-Strategy for bringing together questions ofidentity with material conditions
-Support liberal feminist emphasis on rights, butidentifies western cultural imperialism in some responses (Western feminism overemphasizes gender roles asthe sole reason for women’s oppression)
What are the prominent themes in transnational feminism?
- Organization
- Borderland identities
- Education disparities by gender
- Health and Reproduction (economics & public health)
- Violence against sex/gender minorities
- Global Economy
* Environment (development schemes, food & farming, conservation)
* Gender division of labor
* Care/Affect economies (comfort women, domestic service, sex tourism)
- Decentering western feminism & limits of comparative feminisms
* "global sisterhood"
* speaking for
* media representation (veil debates, voyeurism)
What did Stoler talk about in "Carnal Knowledge & Imperial Power"?
The consequences of colonial expansion
- How the indigenous people are 'Othered'
- examines how Europeans imagine themselves based on asymmetries of race, class, and gender
What did Bell Hooks talk about in "Sisterhood is Still Powerful"?
- How the slogan was initially very powerful as the feminist movement was about creating a foundation of solidarity
- However, there became internalized sexism and classism
What was Stoler's thesis in "Carnal Knowledge & Imperial Power"? How was it intersectional?
- she said that the gender inequalities and sexual control were essential to the structure of colonial racism and imperial authority
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