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9 Cards in this Set
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Windrush generation |
- Arrived from Caribbean 1948-1971 - Filled post war labour shortages - Some not granted right to remain |
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Key ideas |
- Impact of colonialism still felt - Not just about nation states/superpowers - Recent theory: 1990s |
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Ideas 2 |
- Is interdisciplinary across humanities and social services - Aims to give voice to the oppressed/marginalised - Explores epistemology about colonial history |
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Importance |
- Historical relations between colonial power and colonies - Views theories from perspective of the colonised - Encourages use of literary tradition to understand power relations - Questions/critiques terms around identity used to describe others - Bottom up approach |
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Non-aligned movement |
- 1955 -29 Asian and African countries -Siding with neither US or USSR - Independent foreign policy - Formalised in 1961 - 3rd world agenda based on economic development |
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Frantz Faron |
- Emphasises power of colonial discourse to colonise minds of all involved - Focus on language and poets - Dehumanising impact of colonialism |
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Subaltern studies groups |
- Aim to reverse power relations - Counter european narratives of heroism and invincibility - Bottom up social histories |
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Edward Said |
- Key in formation of post colonialism |
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Orientalism |
- Challenges wests understanding of ‘Orient’ - Seeing other areas as undeveloped implies western superiority - Interpretations of ‘Middle East’ are politically motivated - eg if europe is rational, mature and normal implies that ‘Orient’ is irrational, childlike and different |
