Postcolonialism by Darren Thomas https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0 Made with a quick smile en-us 2017-05-03 15:33:09 UTC 2025-11-16 20:29:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Colonialism itself is a product of imperialism https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170717264 Imperialism - a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonisation, use of military force. ]]> 2017-05-09 10:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170717264 https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170717299 Westerners and their alienating treatment of minorities after colonisation ]]> 2017-05-09 10:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170717299 E.g. of colonialism in the media https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170717835 Pears soap advert 1899 'lightening The White Man's Burden is through teaching the virtues of cleanliness. Pears' Soap [...] brightening the dark corners of the earth']]> 2017-05-09 10:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170717835 https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170718453 Non-westerns are seen as uncivilised, similar to animals, primitives (savages). Which introduces the theory of 'Otherness'. ]]> 2017-05-09 10:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170718453 Edward Said: Orientalism https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170718764 Said wrote about how the West view the East. West = active, aggressive etc. East = passive, submissive etc.]]> 2017-05-09 10:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170718764 Otherness https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170718934 the segregated group of individuals in society, a minority, a lower class, ones that seem to not live by the Market Liberal status quo ]]> 2017-05-09 10:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170718934 Family of nations https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170719013 The British empire was often portrayed as a 'family of nations' ; an idea that still persists in the Commonwealth. The indigenous populations of colonies were represented in books, paintings etc. as having child-like qualities. Some were positive - innocence and naturalness
Some were negative - immaturity

]]> 2017-05-09 10:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170719013 Postcolonialism: https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170719678 The name suggests that the period of colonisation is over, however, as Featherstone comments 'independence and the persistence in colonialism in forms after the formal end of military or governmental presenece' by this Featherstone means that even though the invaders left the countries physically, they had still ingrained their way of life (social, political, religious, etc.) and beliefs onto the colonised peoples and changed the way they lived.]]> 2017-05-09 10:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170719678 Ownership of empire https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170719706 for instance the British empire, invaded colonies such as: 
India
Jamaica
South Africa
Egypt
Ireland
Australia ]]> 2017-05-09 10:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170719706 https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170720165 Examples of 'othering' are still prevalent in contemporary culture. Advertisers may offer consumers 'a taste of the East' or the 'mysteries of the orient' whilst film producers scour the globe for locations to serve as a tastefully exotic background to the latest action adventure film. ]]> 2017-05-09 10:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/darren_thomas/rmq6h7m51uh0/wish/170720165