Postcolonialism explained for beginners! Paul Gilroy Media Representation Theory Revision
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Paul Gilroy's work on post colonialism is a cornerstone to media studies representation theory, and looks at how British and non-British ethnicities are represented in the media. This includes postcolonial Melancolia, and ethnic othering of other ethnicities. This makes up one of the Media Studies theories that meed to be revised for any specification.
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1:35 Small correction, Europeans didn't have general wealth and/or industry prior to colonisation. The very reason the "age of discovery" or searching for "new worlds" started among European nations because they were severely struggling: economically, socially and culturally. The elite had everything and the poor were dying in a ditch. The resource extraction from the colonies changed it significantly. Which brought a wave of modernisation and industrialisation in the west. It was a continuous process and not fixed at one point in time.
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I’m a history student and this is a great video just to add a bit of further context to the era I’m studying. Great video !
It’s another one of those areas of study like semiotics, where the more you look into it, the more you realise it has implications in every single area of study, so really glad you found it helpful!
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As African scholars, we are striving to remediate our representation in media from the pre-existing 'colonial gaze'. So, it's quite interesting to see how the British critique their own media. Great video!
It would definitely be interesting to take a look at how African and British media producers represent the same issues differently! Thanks for watching
@@TheMediaInsider it mostly means white liberal guilt and leaving African to fend for itself when they barely had it together in the first place. corruption and tyrants have taken over making some parts Worse, china CCCP is AHOLE and Hong Kong was better under UK Rule.
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Yoou can be proud of your history and also see the errors in your ancestors ways. Im proud of my Swedish heritage but i also recognize the systemic racism that we took part in with the Sami people, the vikings who pillaged and raped and took slaves, etc. History is brutal and we exist today because our ancestors killed the other person and survived.
What needs to be pointed out and critizised is the incorrect and dangerous usage of history, history can be used in a nationalistic way to bring people together whilst at the same time not creatng hate towards other people. The creation of a national identity is still important
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Great video. Is post-colonialism a theory that can be applied to states? Could it be applied to a workplace for example?
I think it can be applied anywhere that still shows the signs of the colonial era. My American history isn’t great, but I think this totally applies in terms of the civil war and north/south divide.
American have a big east west split too. The western farm I live on was "carved" out of the wilderness in the early 1900. It's not even a hundred years old. Out west we still want to exploit people and resources. Our manifest destiny.
Also in terms of corporate power through the likes of ICSID, wherein corporations can take countries to court for nationalising an industry etc.
All empires (Roman, Ottoman, Aztec, Incan....) share certain features. What is unuque about some of the recent ones is that they technically could continue (Mozambique isnt going to take over Portugal any time soon) but have chosen, voluntarily to step back. Are there other empires that backed off willingly when they still had military advantage?
I would disagree, the problem is not just one of military prowess but also of financial possibilities, demography and cultural ethos. Taking your example, Portugal actually couldn't sustain to fight keeping the empire. Mozambique was to far away which became a logistical strain, coupled with a lack of manpower as Portugal is a tiny country with a small population which was not keen to embark in a military adventure and a declining disparity in military technology against the natives (i.e. if Mozambique hadn't received military supplies from the communist bloc perhaps the outcome would be different).
The Portuguese, British, French, etc, didn't stepped back voluntarily but were forced by the inability to project their military force over the colonies. Look at the Suez Crisis, nobody disputes that the British and French were military stronger then Egypt, however not strong enough to win a swift victory and impose their will. In the end they didn't had the money and will to be dragged in a prolonged military adventure.
To keep an empire you must have the ability to project force in the colonies and as we know the sinews of war is infinite money.
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damn, never thought the Berserker of Lighting, Thor, Son of Odin, will educate me about post-colonialism
I m from India thank you sir more infomative vedio sir please make vedio on cultural studies & major writer.
Media is not a separate is not a separate entity. Media is a part of and a reflection the society that produces it. Britain may have been forced to decolonize but the colonial mindset is still embedded in society.
"With our industry, our wealth, and our...self-importance" I did a minor spit-take at this, well done.
The Jalianwalla Bagh Massacare is just the tip of the iceberg of what British has done to India and Indians and the numbers and the bloodied event is STILL undermined. Just search it up and you will find hundreds of articles but with slightly varying claims and stats. But overall, over 1000 people were opened-fired at, women, children killed and yes, it became a major turning point in the struggle for freedom
I'm sure this "midlife-crisis" after being an empire explains a lot of the things that's been going wrong in Russia.
A little off subject but, I once had a friend from the Cayman Islands, who spent most of her life in London and finely immigrated to Florida. Her son went to Florida schools but was labeled by the school administrators as "African American" , because he was black. "No! No!" she said to the administrator, "He is British!". The Florida Bureaucrat was very confused, she had never thought of an Englishman who wasn't white. The Lady had to show their passports to settle the thing.
Honest question - how often do you debate your own position or belief vs present what you have presented here as the truth?
Britain is an amorphous concept. Many don't consider themselves "British". When did the Scottish, Irish or Welsh become British? When they were conquered and became colonies before further absorption? And the sons of the displaced and uneducated poor had to join the Army for 3 squares and a dry bed? Better t o take the Kings/Queens shilling than starve. Cannon fodder to build an empire which exploited the world - no doubt in the culture of the time expressed as just the "business". Best Wishes from Jockland.
Britain treated their own people appallingly no wonder that young men would be willking to go to war rather than suffer poverty or the workhouse.Five million died within Workhouses in UK during Victoria times. Combined with merciless abuse and manipulation Britain carried out on other nation I think shame rather than pride is the correct emotion.
Post colonialism = #MontyPython version of the great kingdom!!!!
Blaming the Europeans for all bad behavior in history is just as Eurocentric as blaming them for all the good behavior. It’s not like all the other major powers (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, etc) didn’t also have colonial aspirations prior to the establishment of a relatively stable system of global trade.
Us Americans demand credit for a lot of bad behavior! We worked hard at it, we deserve the credit!
@@dennismitchell5276USA was playing catch-up lol. Italy too, when they came around to it! The Empire of Japan was kinda different as they posed a pan-Asianist Empire, but didn't keep their cards close to their chest.
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Fair comment.
Not blaming Europeans, just the brits...
I disagree with the idea that postcolonialism explains that much of Britain’s current identity.
Exactly, blaming the Europeans for all bad behavior in history is just as Eurocentric as blaming them for all the good behavior. It’s not like all the other major powers didn’t also have colonial aspirations prior to the establishment of a relatively stable system of global trade.
Im English.
Constantly saying British when you’re meaning English.
When the English started colonisation there was no britain.
England went to India in the time Of Elizabeth.
Where is everyone? Where are my comments? Jeez, maybe I clicked too early.
Not sure!
If that's what "post-colonialism" is, it seems to me a shallow analogy rather than a coherent or productive theory.
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it appears to be a set of false assumptions and narrative on empire and post empire and there is no sense of loss in the population and obviously very different cultures clash thats not a particular british thing
Only problem with the clips of the Royle Family is they are speaking English 😂
Britain did not decolonize they were forced to decolonize.
Colonial powers suffere(d) cognitive dissonance.
How is calling out islamic extremism in the uk being labelled as Islamophobia lmao
Its either conforming to those ideas or subverting them? Yea, u could say the same about any set of ideas. It sounds like a desperate plea to make pct relevant to everything. Also, conflating anti Jamaican windrush generation racism with 21st century war on terror anti Muslim racism seems rather ham fisted and racist. My step mother is a first generation British Jamaican and I don't think she would appreciate being lumped together with a different race and religion just because they're both non white. Also u fail to address the elephant in the room, cultural Marxism and intersectional femenist theory, which seeks to rid the world of racism and sexism regarding people exclusively by their race and sex and not the content of their character. You to talk about the woke effect on western culture. I understand you don't want to lose your job. But until these things become part of the discussion its hard to take modern academics seriously.
Modern academics have truly drunk the kool aid
Well said. White self flagellation sometimes is awkward to watch; some of the people they are trying to appease are not looking for reconciliation but for revenge.
The video is poorly titled. This is anything but an introduction to post-colonialism. I am bothered by the lack of mention of Orientalism and how the empire corrupted the very roots of indigenous values, moralities and cultures to exploit resources. There’s so much foundational literature (Edward Said, Mbembe Fanon, Mary Louise Pratt, Gyandera Pandey, to name a few) that is missed.
I cannot begin to count the atrocities that were committed by the empire. The literature that was produced to justify violence and allow famines. Yet, your video still focuses on Britain and poor them that they are melancholic for they lost the empire. Please title this video properly.
And you’re just repeating another narrative. Uncritically. You just declare these causative links to be true, you analysis of history to be correct, your understanding of the thoughts and feelings of others to be right.
That’s what is meant by “fake news”. That’s the concept. I don’t understand how you can make an episode about Simulacra and produce things like this?
I suspect it’s because your lens is turned on yourself and your feelings? You can’t look at the back of your own head like this. It’s only possible via a reflection; naturally a distorted one.
For example, colonialism. That’s something we “did” in the past. A wrong. We went to other countries and took over their cultures. Consequently, many people once born in, say, Kenya or India are British. They settled there with their families. Right. But then you claim people coming to Britain from other countries as also the problem of the “whites”. You’re mixing your stances. If we were doing it, it can still happen to us, right? Why is it bad one way and not the other? Because of violence? Power? I work 20 meters from where 15 people have died in terrorist attacks in the last 5 years. Isn’t that an operation of power?
Yes it is. As is weaponised “shame”.
What you should say instead of white is “native”. The UK has a native population and a non-native population. Native customs, ways of knowing and histories should always be respected, right? That’s what they say to colonialists like the majority in the USA or in Australia. Respect the natives and their ways.
That’s what people want.
Simple.
That's what people like him are trying to destroy, our identity. It's not "inclusive " enough, it's a barrier to greater globalisation and wealth. They don't care what working class British want, they are going to force this on us. After Brexit the corporate elites are mad, and looking to punish.
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Your desperate misreading of the EDL seems symptomatic of just how poorly nationalism is understood across the West.
People like this are intent on destroying British and English identity in an effort to allow more globalisation. Notice how it's the middle class types who have this deep guilt complex most, and decide to speak for all if us.
When you say "still feeling patriotic " I think yes because your explanation is lazy and simplistic and political motivated. It is the same old aurgument that lacks context and makes the assumption that the Empire is all bad and something deserving of shame.If fails to examine what was there before or if it was better or more moral and that some how if only the wicked British hadn't turned up everything would been better and more moral expect it wasn't. You could argue the diffrence between Empire and self rule is whether you are treated badly or killed by the British which is not a given or wether your treated badly or killed by your own people also not given. Except Britain did actually do good.
Indeed given we established the modern world (America and so on ) it seems a great irony that we are judged by the values we laid down
Secondly nations are formed through conflict both internal and external, war and conquest is very large part of all history but there is a hunger to dismantal the west and its past and its ideas. And you are (I think unwittingly ) playing into that narrative. The west is very self effacing but people need to see the good in themselves as well as the bad but when you oversimiplfie a complex history in to just bad you do a diservice to history and yourself. History is full of Empires Britains good contributions should not be so easily over looked. And if you don't what Britains contributes to the world are here are a few to get you started. Vaccines, antibiotics, hyperdermic needle (British Empire remember ) And the industrial revolution. You can now type angry replies on a computer thanks to that industrial revolution in your industrised house full of industrised stuff probably made in China a counrty with a terrible human rights record but lets focus on attacking history instead, that way you don't have to examine your own hypocrisy and can remain true to your unexmined moral idenity.