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Year 4 Politics.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Michael Dutton.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar a week.
Objectives:
To construct a broader vision of mainstreaming within Asian area studies by making the empirical domain the object of theoretical enquiry.
Content:
The work of Edward Said has been central to recent critiques of conventional area studies and to the emergence of many post-colonial voices. The subject examines his post-structuralist credentials, revealing a somewhat more conventional figure. More worrying, however, is the fact that it reveals serious weaknesses in the notion of Orientalism itself. This subject attempts to resurrect a notion of Orientalism which takes Foucault seriously.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 6,000 words.
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