Sunday, September 28, 2008
Regimes of Representation
So, after spending yesterday debating with myself over various topics and ideas for the paper I began to think about how regimes of representation have created the third world. We talked about this topic in class on September 3rd and of course I have an incomplete sentence in my notes and I was hoping if any of you have a minute (Ok, so I know you probably do not but I would appreciate some input) to look at your notes and fill me in. I wrote that "regimes of representation are a genre through which"........ BLANK!! My next sentence says, "What governs representations of self and others, what is intent, effect of representation." So any one that can finish that sentence, or any ideas about regimes of representation would be grateful. For my paper I was thinking of writing about three representations that created the idea of the third world, as underdeveloped. I am off to go play around with and struggle with this idea. Good luck, how is everyone else coming along?
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I think that this is a great topic to look at. Escobar talks about this a lot within the text, especially Chapter 3 and Professor Chatterji goes over it in class. My laptop is at the Mac Store so I don't know exactly what she said. Maybe one place to look at it would be in the ways that the image of the poor from colonialist mentality as underdeveloped and unintelligent and not able to govern themselves and how that idea then translated itself into development structures and practices. I hope that helps. It sounds like an awesome topic to write about.
Peace
Um...I still don't understand regimes of representation and my notes are all a jumbled up mess, but my notes say this: "how are representations of self indicative of others and vice-versa?" and "how we approach to represent and what are the effects". I don't know. Also, I've been slacking really hard lately. My focus has been NIL. I am still working on Tuesday's paper...ack!
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