Postcolonialism as a critique of development

Question 1

Which year is the Spivak example for a postcolonial effort to pluralise the knowledge surrounding development?

Answer 1

1988

Question 2

Who says that postcolnoialism has failed to pay attention to the material conditions of those living in the global south?

Answer 2

Sylvester 1999

Question 3

What has Spivak 1988 done that is particularly good?

Answer 3

They have recognised the intersection between knowledge and power and attempted to pluralise it.

Question 4

What is alternative to post colonialism in relation to development, and who is an example of this?

Answer 4

Postdevelopment Pieterse 2000

Question 5

What always needs to be done with postcolonoialism?

Answer 5

An attempt needs to be made to balance the problematic neglect of the materiality of development, with the benefit that post-colonialism has on the intersection between knowledge and power.

Question 6

what is the McEwan 2009 quote?

Answer 6

Whilst development has been successful in erasing history, postcolnoialism insists upon it

Question 7

What does Escobar 1984 argue?

Answer 7

That development is formed at an intersection between knowledge and power which postcolonialism can challenge

Question 8

Who also says that post-structuralist approaches can highlight the intersection between language and power that creates normalised development relationship

Answer 8

Gardiner and Lewis 1996

Question 9

What can we not just settle for?

Answer 9

Less bad

Question 10

What does Postcolonialism not acknowledge?

Answer 10

The material conditions of the south, rather how they are represented

Question 11

In failing to acknowledge the material conditions of the south, what does postcolonialism risk doing?

Answer 11

risks perpetuating development’s inability to define its goals properly

Question 12

Even putting this materiality aside, where does postcolonialism look theoretically?

Answer 12

Backwards rather than forwards, and engages with representation rather than capitalism

Question 13

What is the flip side of the intersection between knowledge and power?

Answer 13

IF it is as efficient as it has been until now at forming a development paradigm, then surely a challenge to the knowledge power intersection could undo this. The problem of this is that is now working against entrenched interests rather for them.

Question 14

What are two examples of postcolonial literatures?

Answer 14

Chinua Achebe: things fall apart

Question 15

What is the focus of postcolonial literature?

Answer 15

Challenging representation

Question 16

What can postcolonial literature challenge?

Answer 16

Cultural imperialism

Question 17

What is the Brooks fact and when?

Answer 17

brooks 2017 in Malawi 1 hospital serves ⅓ of the country

Question 18

When someone is starving and unable to read, what might they not care about?

Answer 18

That they are marginally better represented within western academia.

Question 19

What is the fact for 2015 from the world bam

Answer 19

10% of world’s population lived on <1.90/day. Half of world’s extreme poor live in SS Africa.

Question 20

What is the final paragraph to consider?

Answer 20

What are the alternatives that need to be looked at

Question 21

What is the problem with post-development?

Answer 21

only marginally more materially based

Question 22

What is the benefit of South South cooperation when offering a challenge to postoclnoialism?

Answer 22

Material change to the problematic balance of north south power relations

Question 23

Who says that we need to see china as more diverse than its autrotiiarianism may suggest?

Answer 23

Shen and power 2017

Question 24

Who says that development is pluralised by south south cooperation?

Answer 24

Manning 2006

Question 25

What also needs to be included in the alternatives?

Answer 25

Solidarity movements

Question 26

What kind of discourse does postcolonialism destabilise?

Answer 26

The speech and writing that produces the dominant discourse of imperial europe

Question 27

What kind of metaphors does postcolonialism challenge?

Answer 27

Spatial metaphors of the dark continent

Question 28

What subject has been complicit in creating a singular imaginary of the other

Answer 28

anthropology

Question 29

Who argues that there are no clear lines separating colonialism from development?

Answer 29

Wainright 2000

Question 30

Who argues that postocolonialism fails to critique the capitalism at the root of the problems?

Answer 30

Lazurus 2011

Question 31

Whose initiatives must we also pay attention to?

Answer 31

Postcolonial states such as Cuba

Question 32

What is the significance of the absence of a comma?

Answer 32

Suggests a lack of any clear rupture with the past

Question 33

Istead of suggesting that it is somehow after colonialism, what does postcolonialism instead do

Answer 33

Analyse the consequences of colonialism

Question 34

Which enlightenment figure considered Africa to be childish

Answer 34

Hegel