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KL: Rhoda Reddock: Victimhood Discourses in Postcolonial Multiethnic Societies

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Apr 25, 2017 from 06:00 to 08:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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Phil I, GCSC, R.001

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This paper seeks to provide a new conceptual and analytical framework for understanding how problematic conceptions of ‘self’ and ‘other’ are constructed among communities and within groups and communities in post-colonial multi-ethnic societies.  While using the specific case of Trinidad and Tobago, it draws on experiences from post-colonial societies in similar situations globally exploring dimensions of inter-ethnic tensions, competition, conflict and social relations and their gendered manifestations.  Drawing on ideas from political psychology it explores the efforts of postcolonial societies to build nation-states out of the violent and unequal legacy of racialized and ethnicized colonial political economy.

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