Commentary Towards Context Relevancy: The Experience of Community Development in Nicaragua

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Mine Sato
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Community Development ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colonial Theory

For the past ten years I have been working for and studying "developing" countries, including India, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Nicaragua. My ten-years of experience raises a simple but fundamental question: Why has it been reported that many developing countries have been getting poorer (McClintock, A. in Williams, P. & Chrisman, L. Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. Columbia University Press. 1994) despite international aid and development projects2 which are supposed to empower people in these countries? I have been searching for the answer to this question.

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
David Chioni Moore ◽  
Patrick Williams ◽  
Laura Chrisman ◽  
Bill Ashcroft ◽  
Gareth Griffiths ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Theory

scholarly journals Problematising Boundaries and ‘Hierarchies of Knowledge’ within European Anthropologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Alessandro Testa
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past

Is European anthropology the product of a colonialist plot to gain intellectual hegemony? Was the epistemic posture of its main representatives in the past one of crypto-imperialism aimed at – and based upon – power, in the attempt to climb up the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’ and subjugate from its peak minor traditions of study? How can we think about the genealogy of Euro-anthropology (and its future progress) without necessarily capitulating to these narratives of powerism and to the grip of the radical post-colonial discourse, which has been growing mainstream of late? This piece seeks to briefly but piercingly address these pressing issues, while at the same time proposing a few viable routes around the resulting methodological impasses. It also represents the prolegomena to a longer and more substantial critique, which will be published later.

scholarly journals Roehana Koeddoes’s Resistance to Dutch Colonialism in Belenggu Emas By Iksana Banu

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Rahmi Rahmayati
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Dutch Colonialism

Despite being positioned as inferior by the colonial and patriarchal systems of the time, Indonesian women were involved in the resistance against Dutch colonization. Now recognized as national heroes, these women took part in the struggle by directly participating in fighting, or indirectly through social initiatives. Among them was Roehana Koeddoes, whose resistance is depicted in the short story, “Belenggu Emas”, by Iksaka Banu, wherein an indigenous woman from West Sumatra establishes a school dedicated to teaching women and a newspaper, Soenting Melajoe, published by and for women. This study aimed to represent Roehana Koeddoes’s resistance to Dutch colonialism in Banu’s story, using a qualitative method with a post-colonial theory approach. The results showed that Roehana Koeddoes’s resistance to Dutch colonialism was in the form of mimicry, hybridity, and ambivalence. The mimicry shown is the imitation of the colonial discourse regarding superiority of knowledge, education, ethics, and habits, as demonstrated by Roehana Koeddoes’ intellectual abilities in expressing her courage and opinion, through both her writings in the newspapers she owned and her activism as an educationalist and journalist, which inspired women across the Dutch East Indies, including Dutch women. Resistance in the form of hybridity occurs through spatial planning, which is indicated by the adoption of houses with Europeanstyle windows and the arrangement of living room corners that combine Eastern and Western cultures. Lastly, resistance in the form of ambivalence is shown by the attitude of the character, Roehana Koeddoes, who at equal times shows her eastern and western sides.

scholarly journals Edward Said: Post-colonial Discourse and Its Impact on Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Naifa Al Mtairi
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Colonial Theory

This paper highlights Edward Said’s ideology for discerning literary texts that followed the colonial period as a post-colonial discourse. Though some scholars disapprove that notion, Said holds the view that literature is a product of contested social and economic relationships. The West attempts to represent the East and consequently dominates it, not only for knowledge but for political power as well. He assures the worldliness of texts and their interferences with disciplines, cultures and history. Thus, the post-colonial critic should consider the post-colonial literature that might take the form of traditional European literature or the role of the migrant writer in portraying the experience of their countries. The pot-colonial theory with its focus on the misrepresentation of the colonized by the colonizer and the former’s attitude of resistance, draws new lines for literature and suggests a way of reading which resists imperialist ideologies.

2. Colonialism and Post-Colonial Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Chiriyankandath
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the impact of colonialism on post-colonial political development. It first provides an overview of the post-colonial world, noting how politics in developing countries are influenced by their pre-colonial heritage as well as colonial and post-colonial experiences. In particular, it considers post-colonial theory, which addresses the continuing impact that colonialism has on post-colonial development. The chapter proceeds by describing pre-colonial states and societies such as Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australasia, where varying patterns of state formation influenced both the kind of colonization that they experienced and their post-colonial development. It also considers colonial patterns in the post-colonial world and the occurrence of decolonization before concluding with an assessment of the legacy of colonialism to post-colonial states.

scholarly journals Creolised Swedish Archaeology

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Anna Källén
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colonial Theory

This is on one level a story of a meeting between Swedish archaeologists, Laotian archaeologists and villagers in the Ban Nabong village in central Laos. It is also about the structurcs of Swedish archaeology, as revealed in this meeting with alternative views of the past and its material remains. Two central concepts: eaolisatinn and crenlisnrion, are derived from the so-called post-colonial theory to serve as models for describing different attitudes to 'the other' that we meet in any archaeological research. It is argued that a creolised archaeology is worth striving for, becausc it has the active meeting as a central principle. It produces a multitude ol' localised knowledges that enrich cach other, and is built upon a constant open-ended discussion which prevents us from coming to solutions with the problems of the archaeological praxis.

Feudalism in Pre-Colonial Malaya: The Past as a Colonial Discourse

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheah Boon Kheng
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Truth Value

Colonial discourse analysis has proven one of the most fruitful and significant areas of research in recent years. This paper considers the orientalist discourse and its context in the case of pre-colonial Malaya. It discusses the concept of “feudalism” as employed by historians of western Europe, by those of precolonial Malaya and, thirdly, by selected post-colonial writers. In discussing the works of Clifford, Maxwell and other nineteenth-century British officials on Malay feudalism, the author argues that the truth value of their analyses should not be dismissed out of hand, for they have much of value to say, that would repay careful study.

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