Week 10 Pt 2: The Postcolonial Critique

Question 1

Postcolonial studies:

Postcolonial studies are concerned with theorizing, analyzing, and critiquing the __________________. In contradistinction to studies that merely describe landscapes of colonialism in an apolitical way, postcolonial studies is primarily concerned with mapping and theorizing the __________ and ________ of colonialism, their diverse logics (although the focus has been more on cultural logics), and the ways in which they normalize _________ and “ways of knowing” that are produced by, as well as productive of, colonial ideologies and logics, even when they do not seem evident

Answer 1

various logistics of colonialism as they have existed in the past and continue in the present

power; politics

knowledge studies

Question 2

Postcolonial studies:

Postcolonial studies focuses on the how, the why, and the impact of colonialism in various spheres of our cultural, political, social, economic, and intellectual lives. It addresses the _______________ of colonialism (past and present) not as fixed empirical object whose impact can be studied and measured from an “objective” distance, but as a process that continually seeps into our everyday lives

Answer 2

histories and contexts

Question 3

Challenging Ways of Knowing:

“Which populations are given ______ in our knowledge systems? Which populations do not even come under the fold of the “human” or the humanity that we seek to generate knowledge? What (and whose) __________ inform our “ways of knowing”? What histories and ________ have normalized these as “rationalities” at the cost of other potential ways of knowing? What geopolitical processes have rendered the European (and today the US) modern subject as the exemplar of the universal rational subject/

Answer 3

voice

rationalities

geopolitics

Question 4

Challenging Ways of Knowing:

“In its most politically radical manifestation, postcoloniality can be thought of as the unrecognizable that exists beyond the ____________. It is that which exceeds known regimes of modern knowledge generated by colonialisms (and even nationalisms).

Answer 4

binary structure of the self/other

Question 5

How is communication taught?

Answer 5

• Syllabi as form of discourse
• Discourse gives human practice and institution meaning