Contents 1. Doreen Pope 2. Education: Doing bad and feeling good 3. Dance cards 4. Language and literature 5. Inflation DOREEN POPE by Mary Loudon (The Independent Magazine‚ 20 August 1994) 1. Practically no one reading this will have heard of Miss Pope. Her greatness is not obvious and it has never been documented‚ but she is my hero nevertheless. This year she retires after a lifetime’s teaching‚ the last 25 years of which has been spent as a junior-school headmistress
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AT – Coloniality ------------ AT: Mignolo Mignolo assumes preexisting binaries and dichotomies which don’t exist- this guts solvency Michaelsen and Shershow 7 (Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow‚ Professor of English at Michigan State and Professor of English at UC Davis “Rethinking Border Thinking”‚ [http://saq.dukejournals.org/content/106/1/39.full.pdf+html] From this welter of definition‚ we observe‚ first‚ that for Mignolo border ¶ thinking emerges out of an assumed dichotomy.
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In Carolyn Dean’s “The Trouble with (the Term) Art” (2006)‚ the author explores the significance of the word art itself and dives into the deeper meaning of not only what art is‚ but when a piece can be labeled as art. Carolyn Dean successfully accomplishes her goal of providing readers with knowledge about the consequences of identifying art‚ where such a notion did or did not occur. Although Dean is pretty opinionated throughout the article‚ she backs up all of her thoughts by providing ample amounts
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J.M. Blaut said that “eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.” The ideas that Blaut talks about are encompassed throughout the several different short stories that were read throughout this unit. In “Kura‚” by Patricia Grace‚ Kate takes her little sister‚ Riripeti‚ to school. There she and her culture are both consistently mistreated and considered inferior to the Western culture. In “Homeless” by Ovo Adagha‚ the native people of Nigeria are exploited by the previous
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Bibliography: Blaut‚ James M.‚ ‘Environmentalism and Eurocentrism’‚ Geographical Review‚ 89: 3 (1999)‚ pp. 391-408. Blaut‚ James M.‚ The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York & London: Guilford Press‚ 1993. Conrad‚ Geoffrey W.‚ & Demarest‚ Arthur A.‚ Religion
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Post-colonial Theory What it is: • the study of interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized; • an examination of the impact of the European conquest‚ colonisation and domination of non-European lands‚ peoples‚ and cultures; • an analysis of the inherent ideas of European superiority over non-European peoples and cultures; • an analysis of the role of representation in installing and perpetuating such notions. From the point of view of colonised
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What we previously know or believe greatly impacts how we view the world and the visual culture that surrounds us. John Berger argues in the first chapter of his work written in 1972 entitled “Ways of Seeing”‚ that art “embodies a [different and unique] way of seeing” and an artist’s perspective of the truth may not necessarily correlate with what actually occurred. Whilst viewers may assume that what they are seeing within an artwork is historically and culturally accurate‚ the reality is that they
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minority population. The Republican parties use of the Willie Horton image in the 1988 Presidential campaign‚ is a small example of how majority groups have used racial stereotyping in the media as a justifiable means to an end. The book Unthinking Eurocentrism by Stam and Shohat supports this notion when they write "the functionality of stereotyping used in film demonstrates that they (stereotypes) are not an error in perception but rather a form of social control intended as Alice Walker calls "prisons
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13MOZAIK13-bel.qxd 11/25/04 12:18 PM Page 7 On the same Track? MOZAIK 2004/1 Sören A S M U S The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention
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Study Questions What place is on the cover of our book and why did the authors choose it? [Read Chapter 1 to find out] Crescent Moon Lake oasis‚ a place of appararent isolation in the heart of the Gobi Desert in China. Its to get the reader to ask the obvious and no-so-obvious quesitons about why places like the oasis are where they are and what they mean to us both hitorically and today. What are the 4 traditions of Geography? Spatial Tradition‚ Area Studies Tradition‚ The Man-Land Tradition
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