2. Making of the Modern World
THE EMPIRE WRITES BACK

4. History as ideas vs
History as labour

5. (POST-STRUCTURALISM)
POST-MODERNISM
(POST-STRUCTURALISM)
POST-COLONIALISM
DECOLONIZATION

6. POST-MODERNISM

7. What is post-modernism?
What’s the deal with ‘post-modernism’ vs. ‘post-structuralism’?
Standing outside of the modern; holding it up as an object of enquiry
Not a chronological, but a conceptual term
A post-modern perspective looks at phenomena in the world in the wake of the modern
Example: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)

8. POST-COLONIALISM

9. What is post-colonialism?
Not chronological, but a conceptual term
A post-colonial perspective looks at phenomena in the world in the wake of colonialism
Just as the term ‘post-modern’ denaturalizes the modern, post- colonialism denaturalizes the colonial. In so doing we are able to gain some critical purchase on the colonial
Example: Orientalism (1978)

10. DECOLONIZATION

11. What is decolonization?
Decolonization / post-colonialism
Decolonization is not a metaphor
The politics of knowledge in the academy and direct action (vs chronology / analytic)
Decolonize / diversify and the problem of ‘inclusion’
Examples: Decolonization is not a metaphor (1978),
Priyamvada Gopal

12. Slides into action
assessment