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‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postsecular Europe.’
Friday 30 October, 2009
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Avishai Margalit
"Colonialism: Between Humiliation and Exploitation" (abstract)
This talk addresses the origin and definition of colonialism as exploitation in political and economic terms and colonialism as humiliation as linked to loss of national sovereignty, theories of racial inferiority and lack of collective agency.
By investigating the conjunction between colonialism as exploitation and colonialism as humiliation the talk discusses the kind of memory produced around colonial humiliation and its trauma.
Finally it investigates issues of redemption by violence and the question of failed states after decolonization.
