| 学部・大学院区分 | | 開・博前 | | | 時間割コード | | 3062200 | | | 科目区分 | | 専門・プログラム
Program | | | 科目名 【日本語】 | | 包摂的な社会と国家特論A（オリエンタリズム、（脱）植民地主義と開発） | | | 科目名 【英語】 | | Lecture on Inclusive Society and State A (Orientalism, (Post-)Colonialism, Development) | | | コースナンバリングコード | | | | | 担当教員 【日本語】 | | 東村 岳史 ○ | | | 担当教員 【英語】 | | HIGASHIMURA Takeshi ○ | | | 単位数 | | 1 | | | 開講期・開講時間帯 | | 春集中 その他 その他
Intensive(Spring) Other Other | | | 授業形態 | |
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| 授業の目的 【日本語】 | | | | | 授業の目的 【英語】 | | Orientalism, (Post-)colonialism, Development
The course aims at familiarizing the students with the the concept of Orientalism and the debates surrounding it. It also hopes to relate it to the ideas and practices of development. It will do this in two ways. First, it will trace Orientalism through history, not only during the nineteenth century when a sense of modernity, progress, and civilization was imposed on many areas outside Europe through direct and indirect colonization, but also how it has persisted in subsequent periods, even in post-colonial societies. Second, it will unpack the notion of Orientalism, whether through the arguments raised by Edward Said, other scholars who apply the concept to different parts of Asia, as well as through the examples that we can find close to hand, those in everyday life today. This can provide the students with a perspective to reflect on the historical background and long-term dynamic behind certain models of developmental change. In the concluding session, the course will summarize the various debates that the critique of Orientalism has opened up, whether in agreement with it or critiquing it.
With the completion of the course, the students will be able to
explain the characteristics of Orientalism, especially the issues raised in the book by Edward Said
explain the forms of Orientalism in the past, especially that related to the colonial project
understand how Orientalism persists in different guises up to the present, and the different ways it can be related to the idea and practice of ‘development’
understand the debates surrounding the concept, whether as an extension to Said’s ideas or as a critique of them. |
| | | 到達目標 【日本語】 | | | | | 到達目標 【英語】 | | | | | 授業の内容や構成 | | Structure of the Course / Schedule授業の構成・計画
Session 1: What is Orientalism?
Introduction to the course and the topics covered in each session
Introduction to the concept: ‘East is East, West is West’
Clarification of the different references to the word ‘Orientalism’
Introduction to Edward Said and his influential book
What Said does NOT aim at when he speaks of alternatives to the Orientalist attitude: nationalism, essentialism, etc.
Readings:
An interview, “Edward Said on Orientalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g
Session 2: The characteristics of Orientalism: theoretical background
Tracing the background of Said’s ideas: Foucault and power-knowledge, Derrida and deconstruction of binary opposition
‘Knowledge’ as a form of domination, comparison with Bernard Cohn’s Imperialism and its Forms of Knowledge
The metaphor of the East as the ‘mirror’ of Western self-conception
Readings:
Introductory chapter of Said, Edward. Orientalism, London : Routledge, 1978.
Introductory chapter of Cohn, Bernard. Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: the British in
India, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Chapter 1, “Waves of Postcolonial Thought” of Go, Julian. Postcolonial Thought and Social
Theory, Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016.
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625139.001.0001
Further readings:
Said, Edward. Viswanathan, Gauri (ed.). Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with
Edward W. Said. New York: Vintage, 2001.
_____, Peter Osborne, and Anne Beezer. “Orientalism and After: An Interview with Edward
Said”. Radical Philosophy, Spring 1993.
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/edward-said
_____ (Autumn 1985). "Orientalism Reconsidered", Cultural Critique, 1: 89-107.
Session 3: The characteristics of Orientalism: the case of the Arab World as argued by Edward Said
Examples of the descriptions by Western scholars, artists, writers before the expansion of colonialism (around 1870)
Examples of the Orientalists’ discourse during European colonialism and the shift to American hegemony after the Second World War
Readings:
Chapter 1 of Said, Edward. Orientalism, London : Routledge, 1978.
Further readings:
Chapters 2 and 3 of Said, Edward. Orientalism, London : Routledge, 1978.
Session 4: The case of India
The writings of the ‘Utilitarians’ such as James Mill and the ‘Orientalists’ such as William Jones
Example: Western conceptualization of the caste system
Example: Western conceptualization of Hinduism
Readings:
Introductory chapter of Inden, Ronald. Imagining India, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Further readings:
Bayly, Christopher. A. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Session 5: The cases of Japan and Siam/Thailand as ‘non-colonized’ countries
‘Never been colonized’?: semi-colonialism, crypto-colonialism, etc.
Auto-orientalism or self-orientalizing: the cases of Japan and Siam
The ambiguous allure of the West
The Other within: Siam’s colonizing project
Readings:
Befu, Harumi. Hegemony of Homogeneity: an Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron,
Rosanna, Vic.: Trans Pacific Press, 2001.
Harrison, Rachel, and Peter A. Jackson (eds.). The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of
the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
Winichakul, Thongchai. “The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of
Siamese Subjects 1885-1910”, in Turton, Andrew (ed.). Civility and Savagery: Social
Identity in Tai States, London: Curzon Press, 2000.
Session 6: Orientalism today: different guises that persist
Is it only the misconception in the West? ‘Orientalisms’ elsewhere
Occidentalism
Nationalism as ‘reverse Orientalism’ or ‘internalized Orientalism’
Examples from history textbooks, literature, popular culture
Post-colonialism: what ‘post-’?
Readings:
Buruma, Ian. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, New York: Penguin, 2004.
Prakash, Gyan (1995). "Orientalism Now". History and Theory. 34 (3): 199–200.
Clarke, J. J. Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought.
London: Routledge, 1997.
Session 7: Presentations
Cases from the students’ countries or points of view
Session 8: Debates on Orientalism: is it a good tool to understand the world? Where does it lead us to?
Assessing the successes and shortfalls of Orientalism and post-colonialism
Criticisms from within post-colonial studies
Criticisms from without, such as from the Marxists
Update from the field: ‘colonial studies’ today
Conclusion: Orientalism and development
Readings:
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Chatterjee, Partha. Empire and Nation: Selected Essays, 1985-2005, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011.
_____. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1993.
Chibber, Vivek. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, London: Verso, 2013.
Ivarsson, Søren, and Søren Rud (2017). "Rethinking the Colonial State: Configurations of
Power, Violence, and Agency" In Political Power and Social Theory, 33: 1-9.
Prakash, Gyan (1995). "Orientalism Now". History and Theory. 34 (3): 199–200.
_____ (April 1990). "Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives
from Indian Historiography". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 32 (2): 383–
408. |
| | | 履修条件・関連する科目 | | | There is no precondition to take this course. |
| | | 成績評価の方法と基準 | | Presentation 30%, Report 70%.
Credit is given to C- or C (where applicable) or higher grade for each criterion. |
| | | 教科書・参考書 | | Media
An interview, “Edward Said on Orientalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g
Books and Articles
Bayly, Christopher. A. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Befu, Harumi. Hegemony of Homogeneity: an Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron,
Rosanna, Vic.: Trans Pacific Press, 2001.
Buruma, Ian. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, New York: Penguin, 2004.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Chatterjee, Partha. Empire and Nation: Selected Essays, 1985-2005, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011.
_____. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1993.
Chibber, Vivek. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, London: Verso, 2013.
Clarke, J. J. Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought.
London: Routledge, 1997.
Cohn, Bernard. Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: the British in India, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996.
Go, Julian. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016.
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625139.001.0001
Harrison, Rachel, and Peter A. Jackson (eds.). The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of
the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
Inden, Ronald. Imagining India, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Ivarsson, Søren, and Søren Rud (2017). "Rethinking the Colonial State: Configurations of
Power, Violence, and Agency" In Political Power and Social Theory, 33: 1-9.
Prakash, Gyan (1995). "Orientalism Now". History and Theory. 34 (3): 199–200.
_____ (April 1990). "Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives
from Indian Historiography". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 32 (2): 383–
408.
Said, Edward. Viswanathan, Gauri (ed.). Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with
Edward W. Said. New York: Vintage, 2001.
_____, Peter Osborne, and Anne Beezer. “Orientalism and After: An Interview with Edward
Said”. Radical Philosophy, Spring 1993.
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/edward-said
______ (Autumn 1985). "Orientalism Reconsidered", Cultural Critique, 1: 89-107.
______. Orientalism, London : Routledge, 1978.
Winichakul, Thongchai. “The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of
Siamese Subjects 1885-1910”, in Turton, Andrew (ed.). Civility and Savagery: Social
Identity in Tai States, London: Curzon Press, 2000. |
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