Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Post-colonialism
- History of
Colonialism
- At the beginning often a
private enterprise
- Types of colonies
- Domination colony
- Base colony
- Settlement colony
- Effects on Europe
- Testing ground
for political
transformation
process
- Economic
modernisation
- Effects on Colonies
- Political effects
- Economic effects
- Processes of
ethnicisation
- Anti-Colonial
Uprisings
- Source of post-colonial theorising
- Examples
- One of the first really successful uprisings Haiti
1971
- India Mutiny
1857-1858
- Algeria
since the
1870s
- Herero - Nama -
Uprising
1904-1907
- Knowledge -
and theory -
production
- Edward Saïd
- The west and the rest
- Rest signifies the
other Europe
- Everything what
is considered
bad in Europe:
uncivilised,
underdeveloped,
backward,
and
promiscuous
- Orient originally source of
European culture,
knowledge, and languages
- Orient became the other for the
construction of European identity in
which Europe is the dominating factor
- Happens through oriental discourses: source of power and production
- Result of this oriental discourse:
several dogmas
- Distinction between
highly-developed Europe guided
by reason and humanity vs.
a-normal, underdeveloped,
inferior Orent
- Abstractions of the Orient derived from
study of classical texts rather than
observations
- Orient is one-dimensional and incapable of
self-reflection
- Orient is dangerous and needs
to be controlled
- Dipesh
Chakrabarthy
- Attempt to decentrise Western thought
- Europe in many non-Western academia
perceived as the unspoken standard
- Postcolonial dilemma: not easy to
dismiss this thinking because
colonialism is unavoidable
- Inward travel
- Multiple
Modernities vs.
Connected
Histories
- Indian sub-altern studies group: Gurminder Bhambra, Shalini Raneria, Homi Bhaba
- Argue against models of cultural spaces as homogenous and determined units
- Modernity considered to be one autonomous European development
- Eurocentrism
- Against multiple modernities
- Believe complex societies developed outside of Europe
- But: disconnected developments
- Societies developed without being in contact
- Their modernity concept is still focusing on European understandings
- Instead: connected histories and shared present of diverse societies
- Advantages
- Normative: Hinders the reproduction of common Eurocentric problems
- Empirical: Third world countries are not Europe's past but its future
- Problems of
Postcolonialism
- Promotion of border thinking
- The West
against
the Rest
- Rest: manifold and diverse
with many different culture
and intellectual styles; West:
monolithic structure
- Epistemological cul-de-sac
- Only perceives exchanges as knowledge imposition
- No knowledge amalgamation
- Postcolonialism has problems to move beyond
critcising; cannot provide a praxeological account