CULT 320: Globalization and

CultureKara Heitz, 09/16/2014

Post-colonialism

• What is post-colonialism and a post-colonial perspective?

• Why does Young use a series of scenes in the beginning and throughout the book? It is effective? Why or why not?

• How are globalizing processes viewed from a post-colonial perspective?

• What is “translation”? How does it connect to both power relations and empowerment?

Imperialism, 1914.

Blue: 1st World, Red: 2nd World, Green: 3rd World

Jalozai refugee camp, 2001.

Left: Early UNRWA school, Jalazone refugee camp, West Bank, 1951.

Right: Palestinian children travel to an UNRWA school to seek shelter after evacuating their homes near the border in Gaza City on July 13, 2014.

Marcus Garvey, George O. Marke, and Prince Kojo Tovalou-Houenou, in Harlem, 1924.

A THOUSAND years ago, the great cities of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo took turns to race ahead of the Western world. Islam and innovation were twins. The various Arab caliphates were dynamic superpowers—beacons of learning, tolerance and trade. Yet today the Arabs are in a wretched state. Even as Asia, Latin America and Africa advance, the Middle East is held back by despotism and convulsed by war.

Hopes soared three years ago, when a wave of unrest across the region led to the overthrow of four dictators—in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen—and to a clamour for change elsewhere, notably in Syria. But the Arab spring’s fruit has rotted into renewed autocracy and war. Both engender misery and fanaticism that today threaten the wider world.

- The Economist, July 5, 2014