Post-Colonialism & Globalization

Question 1

Postcolonial Rhetorical Critcism

Answer 1

• Examines the process of colonization and decolonization
• Interested in power dynamics
• Historicizes: to understand this condition or this moment, we have to look at the historical context that shaped this
• Done in an international context

Question 2

Orientalist Critique (Edward Said)

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• Examines constructions of the ‘east’ or ‘orient’ by the West
• Representational Implications: The principal characteristic of Orientalism is a “subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arab–Islamic peoples and their culture”, which prejudice derives from Western images (representations) that reduce the Orient to the fictional essences of “Oriental peoples” and “the places of the Orient”; such cultural representations dominate the communications (discourse) of Western peoples with non–Western peoples.
• Material Implications: The Orient is an integral part of European material civilization and culture. Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideologically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines, even colonial bureaucracies and colonial styles
• Western discourse produces ideas of the east and uses those ideas to produce action

Question 3

Postcolonial Rhetoric: colonization

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categorized as a system of domination, still in practice today

Question 4

Postcolonial Rhetoric: decolonization

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removal of colonial instructions

Question 5

Postcolonial Rhetoric: Modes of Analysis

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1) Focus on power dynamics
2) Rigorous historicizing
3) Challenging discursive imperialism
4) Geopolitical analysis of culture
5) Cultural hybridity

Question 6

Key Aspects of Globalization

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• Integration
• Rise in technology/transportation
• Time/Space Compression
• Production has been Displaced
• Cultural dimension

Question 7

Globalization: Integration

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• Global integration of economies is not new

- National economies and political systems integrate into a transnational entity

Question 8

Globalization: Rise in technology & transportation

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Technology and transformations have sped up global integration

Question 9

Globalization: Time/Space Compression

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• Places we used to experience as far away now seem closer

- Time is quicker

Question 10

Globalization: Cultural Dimension

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media is shaping our lives

Question 11

Globalization definition

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• The state of culture in motion
• The integration of national systems into international systems (economies)
• Ex: McDonald’s worldwide

Question 12

Transnational Rhetorical Criticism: Global Scapes

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• The five dimensions of culture in transnational motion
• Ethno-scapes
• Techno-scapes
• Finance-scapes
• Media-scapes
• Ideo-scapes

Question 13

Global Scapes: Ethno-scapes

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People are on the move (migration, displacement, resettlement..workers, tourism, refugees)

Question 14

Global Scapes: Techno-scapes

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• How technologies produce movement

- Involves high and low mechanical and informational technologies

Question 15

Global Scapes: Finance-scapes

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Movement of finance/ stock exchange/ commodities/ currency exchanges/ trading

Question 16

Global Scapes: Media-scapes

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• Distribution of media, images, and information creates a homogenous world
• Ex: celeb tours

Question 17

Global Scapes: Ideo-scapes

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• Ways in which beliefs about ourselves & the world and counter-ideologies circulate to create globalization
• Ex: conversation for occupy Wall Street against rich, global integration comes with disintegration and disconnection

Question 18

Global/Local Globalization vs. Localization

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Ex: in globalization, McDonald’s spreads across the world as exactly the same entity in each country.
- In localization, it does not spread all over the world, but each culture adapts it to fit their needs (Ex: France serves wine at McDonald’s)

Question 19

Globalization: Key Assumptions

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• Causes a ‘dis-location’ of culture
• Does not happen homogeneously
• Relies on overlapping structures & relations
• Not a mere extension of colonialism
• Changes self-other relationship
• Changes space and proximity