QA - Social Flashcards
number of displaced Iraqi
2.7
displaced outside iraq
2
largest displaced population
iraqi
largest refugee population
Afghan, then palestinian, then Iraqis
rein of the bath regim
35
What is PLANNING
Planning is defined here as a set of rational actions, which aim to organise the use of space according to principles and goals determined in advance, usually by those in power. As such, planning is a very powerful action since it dictates the future of individuals and groups by shaping economic, social, cultural and physical spaces, which usually meet only the needs of the powerful actors in society.
Martin Heidegger
German existantialist philospher botn in 1889
What is Intersectionality?
a concept often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. Third Wave Feminism, especially, thrived on the concept of intersectionality in order to redefine Feminism as inclusive. The concept first came from legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989 and is largely used in critical theories, especially Feminist theory, when discussing systematic oppression.
What is post modern feminism
Postmodern feminism’s major departure from other branches of feminism is perhaps the argument that sex, or at least gender is itself constructed through language, a view notably propounded in Judith Butler.
What is strcturalism?
as summarized by philosopher Simon Blackburn, Structuralism is “the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations. These relations constitute a structure, and behind local variations in the surface phenomena there are constant laws of abstract culture”
Who influenced the work of Judith Butler?
Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, as well as on Luce Irigaray
What is essentialism?
he basic proposition that men and women are essentially different
What is the difference between sex and gender
the first is biological and the second is social
“Taking the role of the other” the person ability to understand another person perspective
Gorge H Mead, he was the philosopher’s , sociolgist psychologist and one of the founders of social psychology and one of the founders of sociological thought
subaltern
the social group who is socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland
Worlding
The discourse used to represent colonized territories
Origin of the term aboriginal
The term ‘aboriginal’ was coined as early as 1667 to describe the indigenous inhabitants of places encountered by European explorers, adventurers or seamen. While the terms ‘aboriginal’ and ‘aborigine’ have been used from time to time to describe the indigenous inhabitants of many settler colonies, they are now most frequently used as a shortened form of ‘Australian Aborigine’ to describe the indigenous inhabitants of Australia.
Who is Edmondo De Amicis
He is an Italian nationalist, socilaist journalist novevelest who worte about the middle east during the war. In 1870, he joined the staff of the journal La Nazione in Rome. he is famous for A new edition of Costantinopoli, considered by many his masterpiece and the best description of the city in the 19th century. famouse for children genere.
First book for Bell Hooks
ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism (1981), hooks was part of a vanguard of black female writers who were not only extending gender politics within black communities but were also providing searing critiques of US feminism which was under- girded by the presumption of white womanhood.
What is Genuflection
Genuflection (or genuflexion), bending at least one knee to the ground, was from early times a gesture of deep respect for a superior. In 328 BC, Alexander the Great introduced into his court-etiquette some form of genuflection already in use in Persia.
