Politics, Power and Resistance: Continuous analysis reflection-17434065

THE SHRINKING WORLD1

Ayesha Khan- 17434065- Politics, Power and Resistance- Autumn 2014 26/05/14

European colonial domination 16th Century

Eurocentric ideals

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Construction “of a hierarchy of a superior and inferior knowledge and thus, superior and inferior people around the world” Grosfoguel, 2008

Western knowledge as the sole achiever in a universalistic consciousness

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Globalisation: The rapid spread of the “Euro-Identity” Morely and Robins, 2002

Emergence “of a subject-object relation” Quinjao, 2007

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Submergence of society into Westernisation

Why is everyone so suddenly ill at easeand confused (just look how solemn their faces are)?

Why are the streets and the squares all at once empty,

as everyone heads for home, lost in their thoughts? 

     Because it’s night now, and the barbarians haven’t shown up.

     And there are others, just back from the borderlands,

     who claim that the barbarians no longer exist.  

What in the world will we do without barbarians?Those people would have been a solution, of sorts. 

C.P Cavafy, 1971

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CITIZENSHIP AND INEQUALITY III: GENDER AND SEXUALITY

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“Rather than refining the idea of feminism as something that stretched from its radical incarnation to its liberal form, we have to broaden the scope of its reference” Viber, Cited in Power, 2009

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Inequalities represented through gender expectations

Feminism fights for equal rights for both women and men

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Diminishing gender expectations which are ultimately shrinking opportunities for both women and men

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‘Intersection’ Feminism

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NEO-LIBERALISM, POLITICS, AND THE STATE

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Pre-embedded structures of power distributions

Dominant class structures

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“A transfer in control and/or ownership of business and industry form the public realm to the private” Harvey, 2007

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Privatisation of public entities

Neo-liberal ideals of prioritising “the integrity of financial institutions and bond holders [over] the well-being of citizens” Harvey, 2007

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2014 budget cuts, Australia

$15 billion budget cuts to the health sector

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