Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Orientalism & the Other
- Said (1978)
- discourse through which Europeans manages
the Orient during post-enlightenment period
- cultural hegemony gives orientalism strength & durability
- Us vs. Them
- power involves knowledge - radicalised knowledge (Foucault)
- regime of representation: representing in certain way
- Olson (2005)
- promotes political vision between foreign & common
- once vision is accepted, difficult to change
- Western generalisation about Orient/islamic cultures
- colonial discourse operated as instrument of power
- the Eastern came to know themselves as the Orients
- ethnocentrism: application of one's culture to others
- Sawant (2012)
- Post-colonialism
- modes of perceptions used as weapons of colonial power
- Ambivalence
- repulsion & attraction that characterises relationship between coloniser, colonised
- Mimicry
- colonised subject imitates coloniser by adopting habits, values (never simple reproduction)
- Hybridity
- political-cultural negotiation between coloniser, colonised (gap W&E)
- Bhabha (1983)
- stereotyping is ideological operation
- repeated characteristics confirm generalisation
- regime of truth: coloniser controls conolised
by using knowledge to define colonised
- Hall (1997)
- significantly different from majority (THEM) are exposed to binary form of representation
- difference is essential to meaning
- meaning depends on different between opposites
- construct meaning through dialogue with "Other"
- meaning established through dialogue
- difference is basis of culture, symbolic order
- classification systems (groups)
- ambivalent role of Other
- positive: formation of language, cultural identities
- negative: creates hostility, aggression, threat
- Stereotypes
- divides acceptable from abnormal
- maintenance of symbolic order
- normal vs. deviant
- sends THEM to symbolic exile
- occur when there are strong power inequalities
- Foucault: power/knowledge
- Gramsci: hegemony
- natural & inevitable