166-445 Postcolonial Concerns, Postmodern Theory

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Subject Description

The subject highlights a range of postcolonial concerns (such as, hybridity, alterity and subalterity etc.) and utilises a wide body of postmodern theory (Foucault, Derrida, de Certeau etc.) to examine certain specific issues of social, cultural and economic development. Students who complete this subject should be able to: Understand the usefulness and importance of postmodern and postcolonial concerns; Discuss questions of social transition in a broader more theoretically informed manner; Understand the limits of area studies and applied theory approaches to the construction of knowledge; Analyse the limits to a select body of recent social, political and cultural theory Advance an alternative way of formulating the idea of mainstreaming Asian Studies.

Assessment

Essay work or equivalent totalling 6000 words.