Critical Issues: Week 3 (Distinctions)

Question 1

Colonial vs Post-colonial

Answer 1

COLONIAL: The process of a nation acquiring partial or full control over another nation, people and territories; occupying their land and resources
(THE PRESENT)

POST-COLONIALISM: A term that refers to the cultural and social contexts of countries that were formerly defined through relationships of colonialism
(THE AFTERMATH)

Question 2

Gazes (Male, Institutional, Exotic)

Answer 2

MALE: The act of depicting women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer.

INSTITUTION: Being held under the watchful gaze of an institution and obeying rules in fear of judgement or punishment.

EXOTIC: Form of a gaze that accentuates the foreignness and difference of the other

Question 3

Modern, Modernity, and Modernism

Answer 3

MODERN: present or contemporary

MODERNITY: social and political period

MODERNISM: a group of different styles and movements in art, literature and culture during the late 1900s to mid-20s

Question 4

Objectification, Normalization, Exoticization

Answer 4

OBJECTIFICATION: The action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object; ignoring their needs, feelings, or opinions.

NORMALIZATION: Form of the gaze produced by institutions, such as schools, that seeks to conform to individuals into a unified group, usually by erasing difference

EXOTICIZATION: Portraying someone or something unfamiliar as exotic or unusual; romanticizing or glamorizing it