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Discourse on Colonialism
Cesaire, negritude movement, cesaire is using a…
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cesaire is using a dialectical analysis when he says that the civiliser becomes the barbarian: the inability to engage with radical difference when you encounter it brings out what you truly are
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Nazism: What Europe had been doing in the colonies, it finally did within itself.
essentialism and how people are distinct from one another.
gandhi is unable to transcend the colonial distinction that we are separate from other.
Cesaire, on the other hand, looks for a universalist alternative to combat this historical racism.
gandhi: you can't work on humanity if you can't work on yourself - you should stop working for yourself and instead work on yourself
cesaire: there is something of value to the universal value of humanity that in spite of colonialism, can be recuperated.
when you use dialectics, you often do not take into account how the two opposites are mutually constitutive of each other.
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the barbarism of colonialism can only be understood in terms of its role in the making of modern europe, through the process of denigrating the other.
appeals to critique colonialism that come from the place of morality will always fall short because the ruling class controls the superstructure.
all kinds of violence can be morally justified.
thingification: europe has not just turning land and labour into objects, but everything, including immaterial things - reification
ethnomedicine was viewed by colonialism as having inaccurate understandings of nature.
many therapeutics used in modern western medicine are appropriations of ethnomedicine.
objectified entities: barbarian, tribe, etc.
(discourse of othering that holds colonialism together)
ideal types of humans: either inferior or superior
when you create a binary world you can delude yourself into believing that you can be anything you want