Hybrid Theory
“Hybrid theory”
What is colonialism?
Slavery & subordination
The roman concept of “Colonia”
The colonial Rationale
The “Other” as uncivilized
Colonial power as superior
Subaltern consciousness/ culture is misguided/inferior
Colonial power as a civilizing force
Subaltern: the “OTHER”
Colonial and imperial rule was legitimized by anthropological theories which increasingly portrayed the peoples of the colonized world as inferior, feminine, childlike, incapable of looking after themselves (despite having done so perfectly well for millennia) and requiring the paternal rule for their own best interests (today they are deemed to require ‘development’). - Robert C.J. Young
THE Colonial Struggle
1.The elite exposed to Western education
2. The elite informed of the colonial condition (inequality, abuse, manipulation)
3. The transference of the colonial consciousness to the masses
4. The masses revolt against colonizer
5. Move towards self-determination
6. POSTCOLONIAL CONDITION
Dependency theory
“Necolonialism”
“First World” nations developed at the expense of the “Third World”
Being economically dependent on the former colonizer
The Western model
Legitimate government
Law
Economics
Science
Language
Music
Art
Literature
Fixation with the mestizo
Colonial mentality
What was that cliché? Three centuries in a monastery and fifty years in Hollywood. But what about ten thousand years in Asia?
- James Hamilton Paterson, Ghosts of Manila
Postcolonial theory
Involves the argument that the nations of the three non-Western continents (Asia, Africa, Latin America) are largely in a position of subordination to Europe and North America, and in a position of economic inequality
Names a politics and philosophy of activism that contests that disparity, and so continues in a new way the anti-colonial struggle of the past
Tricontinental
First World – Capitalist
Second World – Socialist
Third World – the so-called “non-aligned nations”
What is colonialism?
Slavery & subordination
The roman concept of “Colonia”
The colonial Rationale
The “Other” as uncivilized
Colonial power as superior
Subaltern consciousness/ culture is misguided/inferior
Colonial power as a civilizing force
Subaltern: the “OTHER”
Colonial and imperial rule was legitimized by anthropological theories which increasingly portrayed the peoples of the colonized world as inferior, feminine, childlike, incapable of looking after themselves (despite having done so perfectly well for millennia) and requiring the paternal rule for their own best interests (today they are deemed to require ‘development’). - Robert C.J. Young
THE Colonial Struggle
1.The elite exposed to Western education
2. The elite informed of the colonial condition (inequality, abuse, manipulation)
3. The transference of the colonial consciousness to the masses
4. The masses revolt against colonizer
5. Move towards self-determination
6. POSTCOLONIAL CONDITION
Dependency theory
“Necolonialism”
“First World” nations developed at the expense of the “Third World”
Being economically dependent on the former colonizer
The Western model
Legitimate government
Law
Economics
Science
Language
Music
Art
Literature
Fixation with the mestizo
Colonial mentality
What was that cliché? Three centuries in a monastery and fifty years in Hollywood. But what about ten thousand years in Asia?
- James Hamilton Paterson, Ghosts of Manila
Postcolonial theory
Involves the argument that the nations of the three non-Western continents (Asia, Africa, Latin America) are largely in a position of subordination to Europe and North America, and in a position of economic inequality
Names a politics and philosophy of activism that contests that disparity, and so continues in a new way the anti-colonial struggle of the past
Tricontinental
First World – Capitalist
Second World – Socialist
Third World – the so-called “non-aligned nations”