ISBN:
9789087901479
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (162 pages)
Series Statement:
Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Ser.
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DDC:
306.43
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this book, the author critically analyzes the ongoing and wide-ranging effects of colonialism and globalization on the poor, especially on those living in the "Third World." The author's overarching argument is that colonization was not merely about the conquest of foreign lands, but it was also about the ideological monitoring of the colonized's mind, often maintained through western hegemonic texts and institutional apparatus, such as schools and churches. Analyzing and situating colonialism in the context of western neo-liberal policy of occupation and economic, political, and ideological dominations, the author thus demonstrates how, through schools and the mass corporate media, neocolonized and occupied subjects have been mis-educated to internalize and reproduce old western values, beliefs, and norms at the expense of their own. The voices of those brutalized by the twin iniquities of neocolonialism and imperialism have for too long been silenced. In this personal narrative, Pierre Orelus, a Haitian immigrant and educator, shares his reflections, hopes, and dreams for the future. It is time for a voice such as Pierre's to be heard by teachers, teacher educators, and others concerned with social justice. Sonia Nieto Professor (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts-Amherst Interweaving the perspectives of subject and critical observer, Pierre Orelus reveals multiple dimensions of the material and psychological devastation left in the wake of Western imperial conquest. His ruminations focus on his native Haiti, once the world's richest colony, severely punished for daring to become the first free country of free men in the hemisphere, now its most deeply impoverished and brutalized society. But his thoughts and their implications reach well beyond, yielding valuable insight into the pain and suffering of the traditional victims, and their
Abstract:
Intro -- Education Under OccupationThe Heavy Price of Living in a Neocolonizedand Globalized World -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface-Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Interrogating The Western World-Towards a Better Understanding of The Restern World: A Historical Inventory -- Chapter 1 Imagine the Life of the Neocolonized in the Restern World. -- Chapter 2 The Restern World: From Western Colonial to Western Neocolonial Domination -- Chapter 3 Noam Chomsky and Pierre Orelus: A Dialogue about the Impact of Colonialism and Imperialism on Restem Countries -- Chapter 4 Education under Occupation -- Chapter 5 De-Wersternize World History: Towards an Alternative Understanding of World History through the Oppressed Voice -- Chapter 6 The Subaltern Language under Western Siege -- Chapter 7 Restern Intellectuals: The Redefinition of their Roles in a Neocolonial and Post-enlightenment Era -- Chapter 8 Restern Women under Western Gaze: A Critical Sociohistorical Analysis of their Struggles from the Colonial to the Neoliberal Era -- Chapter 9 Resterners' Transnational Migration to the West: What Is at stake? -- Chapter 10 The Rest inside the West: Haiti VS. New Orleans during Katrina -- Conclusion: Going Beyond -- References -- TRANSGRESSIONS: CULTURAL STUDIES AND EDUCATION -- OTHER BOOKS BY SENSE.
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