Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality

Gikandi, Simon

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“…Making a narrative ''Master'': technologies of emotion and logic Scholars in a number of disciplines have used the term ''master narrative'' to describe a range of normative conceptualizations and sociopolitical phenomena, such as dominant environmental discourses (Harper 2001), historically based gender and power relations (Erler 2003), media characterizations of military interventions (Hackett and Zhao 1994), teacher sex scandals and pedophilia (Cavanagh 2008), and broad intellectual revolutions, like ''the Enlightenment'' (Gikandi 2001).…”

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Beneath the master narrative: human trafficking, myths of sexual slavery and ethnographic realities

Snajdr

2013

Dialect Anthropol

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This paper explores the disconnections between anti-trafficking discourse and the local experience of responding to human trafficking as indicated in ethnographic data from Bosnia and Kazakhstan. Using the concept of ''uptake,'' I examine how anti-trafficking discourse operates as a master narrative, drawing on techniques of emotion and logic, as well as a specific type of victim story. I also consider how, despite an emerging counter discourse that questions the data and challenges current policy, human trafficking discourse continues to be retold in media and reproduced in popular culture, often in ways that actually diverge from the current version of the grand narrative. In contrast to these uncritical representations, ethnographic data from Bosnia suggest that the master narrative is selective in how it represents the history of the problem and that it does not ''take up'' important details about the context that fosters sexual exploitation, despite Bosnia's compliance with US policy. Conversely, Kazakhstan suffers a liminal status regardless of local efforts to prevent the problem from happening within its borders as well as evidence that the crime is not widespread. While perhaps not mythical, I suggest that the master narrative contains the stuff of legend as it occupies the critical spaces of policy, activism and development, leaving open the question of how to address the nuances and needs of responding to victims of gender violence.

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Section: Beneath the Master Narrative 233mentioning

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Beneath the master narrative: human trafficking, myths of sexual slavery and ethnographic realities

Snajdr

2013

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“…6 Supported by the works of influential critics and theorists, these central themes are represented under the postcolonial considerations of global, local, and modern (Dirlik, 2006). Postcolonial considerations of global and local are often referred to in conjunction with each other, as the structure of global power relations and influence of this domination on local communities explicates current understandings of globalization and glocalization (Dirlik, 1994;Gikandi, 2006;Robertson, 2006). The current notions of globalization based on postcolonial theory are concerned with "new forms of social and cultural organization whose ambition is to transcend the boundaries of the nation-state" (Gikandi, 2006, p.627).…”

Section: Postcolonial Theorymentioning

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“…Postcolonial perspectives of glocalization focus on decentering the colonizer and other dominant ideologies to reveal the complex, overlapping nature of culture (Gikandi, 2006). According to Appadurai (1996), globalization constitutes "a complex overlapping, disjunctive order that cannot any longer be understood in terms of existing center-periphery models" (p.32).…”

Section: Postcolonial Theorymentioning

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“…In terms of postcolonial globalization, hybridity helps harmonize the global and the local, or the universal and the specific in understanding the multiplicities of cultural knowledge and relationships (Gikandi, 2006;Bhabha, 1994). According to Pieterse (1998), it is through postcolonial hybridity that globalization is able to defy homogeneity, imperialism, westernization, and Americanization.…”

Section: Postcolonial Theorymentioning

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“…Although race, ethnicity and language continue to be central in shaping the current condition of HLI in U.S. society, issues of globalization and immigration have further complicated these postcolonial discourses (Dirlik, 1994(Dirlik, , 2006Gikandi, 2006;Robertson, 2006). Like colonialism, immigration is fueled by economic and political processes that define immigrants as the Other or the subaltern through laws and policies restricting them from having equal access to health and social services in the U.S.…”

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Postcolonialism (or often post‐colonialism) deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies. Unlike “colonialism,” this term is of much more recent provenance, emerging in the late 1970s to describe a range of literary and cultural analysis of colonized and formerly colonized societies. As originally used by historians after World War II in terms such as the post‐colonial state, “post‐colonial” had a chronological meaning, designating the post‐independence period. However, from the late 1970s, the term has been used by cultural critics to discuss the various social, political and cultural effects of colonization. It now describes neither a historical period nor a fixed range of societies but is best understood as a discourse generating a specific reading practice.

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Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality

Cited by 167 publications

References 21 publications

Beneath the master narrative: human trafficking, myths of sexual slavery and ethnographic realities

Beneath the master narrative: human trafficking, myths of sexual slavery and ethnographic realities

Understanding social determinants of healthcare access from the perspective of Hispanic Latino immigrants in Louisville, Ky.

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