post colonialsim Flashcards
what is post-colonialism concerned with
understanding the ongoing impact that colonailism has on chaping colonail thinking and how this leads to the marginalision of the mordern world studying wealth and power disparaties between states
draws attention to IR theroties negelct of crcial intersection empire including race gender and class with repdorcued hierarhcical International Relations
what are the wests perceptions of the non-west a result as?
legacies of western coloanism thoguh discources which have been construcuted to make the non-west seem ‘other’ and or ‘inferior’ to the west. which then justifies and reduced backlash for the wests previous and ongoing domination of the non-west
what does franz fanon aim to do
recover the lost voices of colonialism
and make sure that positionality is key when studying post-colonialism. if someone from the west wants to study the effects of post colonialism then this must be done with a consideration being taken of their privileged position
what are the push and pull factors leading to decolonisaton
internatal national factors and external metropolitan factors
what is the idea of neo-colonialism?
the idea that colonalism has not gone away and instead it has just changed into controues having systems of depednendy on their former countries
for example cash crop economies rely on metropolitan powers and the international makret to regulate their economy
what does walter rodney argue about underdevelopment
argues we cannot describe post-colonall nationa as developing as throught the 60s and 70s they werent developing
- trade fell to only 10% in theses countries in 1960s this is due to the countries not having the bsuiness experience needed to keep a health econony aflot which is a direct conseqeunce of colonialism
in chad they only had 1 doctor to 700,000 people
what does rodney say about debt
foreing investments to ‘developing’ countries comes with high inflations which countries can never seem to pay back, they are cosntantly indebted to theses metropolican countries leaving thier infleunce present
what is the issue with foreing investment in central and latin america?
the foreign investment that was given to developing counries the profit was extracted back to the met countries and not given to those who need it the most
what are concessions
the seeling off of state posessions to foreign intersts
neo-colonalism and state violence
the US had a hand in funding political intersts to stay in power in latin america
operation condor war partly funded by the SU to opress communist oppositioni latin america serving US intersts
example of congo
the seemingly independent state of congo democratically elected a president who wanted to nationalise the mines, as this went against metropolitan economic intersts they funded mabutu to take power, he was a very courrpt presdient anda ccumulated a 5 billion dollar wealth
