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5 Cards in this Set
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Key ideas |
- Ontology: identifying what actually exists - Epistemology: nature of knowledge, possibility, scope, general basis, how is knowledge constructed - Focused on highs politics: war, security, identity construction |
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Key terms |
- Discourse: language essential to how we make sense of the world - Deconstruction: language is made up of dichotomies that are not neutral - Genealogy: what political practices have formed the present and what understandings have been marginalised? - Intertextuality: social world is comprised of texts |
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Misc |
Post modern theory: culture, films, music |
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Identity |
- Not something one has, a constructed position - Who can speak? - eg Idea that those who receive aid are less knowledgeable than donors |
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Criticism |
- Dense philosophical vocabulary - What does it actually mean? - Fails to provide explanations or accounts for what actually happens in the world |
