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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
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
Misc
Post modern theory: culture, films, music
Identity
- Not something one has, a constructed position
- Who can speak?
- eg Idea that those who receive aid are less knowledgeable than donors
Criticism
- Dense philosophical vocabulary
- What does it actually mean?
- Fails to provide explanations or accounts for what actually happens in the world
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