Questions §
- Why is ‘postcolonialism’ as a phenomenon difficult to define and pinpoint as a single theoretical tradition?
- What is the author’s definition of postcolonialism?
- What are some of the goals and agendas of postcolonialism?
- How does postcolonialism approach ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’?
- Discuss the postcolonial critique of Immanuel Kant and subsequent theories based upon the work of this theorist.
- What is the postcolonial objection to ‘human rights’ as a ‘universal value’?
- How does Said’s book Orientalism illustrate and elucidate the relationship between Europe and the East?
- Describe the relationship between Orientalism and the discourses on terrorism including ‘the War on Terror’.
- How does postcolonialism’s response to the Non-Proliferation Treaty illustrate its opinion about
Western ideas of international morality and law?
- What is the significance of the internationalization of the Suez Canal for postcolonialism?
- What is the postcolonial approach to the future?
- Compare the approaches of liberal internationalism, constructivism, and postcolonialism.
