British Relations And Postcolonial International Relations

Raewyn Connell's essay, “Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale” focuses on the failures of the dominant narrative of gender theory. Connell has devised this paper in response to the colonial metropole that shapes academia as a whole. It is her suggestion that scholars would benefit from a shift in perspective and practices, subtracting from the dominant narrative and allowing for different methodologies to emerge. She argues that by lending precedence to the Global South, the understanding of feminism and of gender would be improved on a global scale.

Though women have played an integral part in the history of the discipline of anthropology, it was not until the early 1970’s that the field of anthropology and gender, or feminist anthropology emerged. Sex and gender roles have always been a vital part of any ethnographic study, but the contributors of this theory began to address the androcentric nature of anthropology itself. The substantial gap in information concerning the study of women was perceived as a male bias, a prejudice made more apparent because what little women-centered fieldwork was done received insufficient attention from the academic community. While anthropology was considered one of the more egalitarian fields of study, it was dominated by white, Western males who

By the term ‘cross-cultural male supremacist complex’ Divale and Harris refers to the societal asymmetrical practices and beliefs that favor males over females due to their active contribution in fighting war. Speaking generally

Evans continues to trace the evolution of women’s roles in society, which increasingly diverged from men’s roles-- for indigenous women as male-dominated war metaphors became more culturally central, and for Europeans as men grew very economically successful compared to

While coming up with a topic for this paper, one of my questions dealt with war and cultural groups. I will be the first to admit, Racism was the last thing on my mind. The original question being, “How does war affect a Social Culture and how does it stand today?” When I started thinking about Cultures that had been so deeply affected by war, one of the first that came to mind were the Japanese in World War II. Then I recalled what one person had told me of their younger days at college, when they were attending school. Their name will remain anonymous; I do not want to make the victim’s name public as it has a very personal nature.

An individual's social location - meaning their ascribed identities, roles and relationships - are of central significance to feminists as it influences the power one possesses, which in traditional IR theory is gendered and patriarchical. According to Christine Sylvester, these scholars suggest that conventional IR has avoided thinking of men and women in the capacity of embodied and socially constituted subject categories by classifying them into 'neutral' categories . Most theorists too readily accept that women are located inside the typically separate sphere of domestic life and "...retreating to abstractions, i.e. the state, that mask a masculine identity." Feminist analysts are suspicious of ungendered IR texts and champion for their subversion while many seek to implement replacement theories. These theorists contend that identity, gender, and indeed women, are social constructs. Key feminist conceptions include liberal ideas of women's equality, socialist conceptions of a sexual division of labour and the Freudian suggestion that identities are produced, often within the evolution of patriarchy . Many academics share the assumption that the world would be less competitive and less violent if women gained dominance in positions of power .

Starting in 1754, the Seven Years’ war began and led up to a sequence of events involving the Parliament. The Parliament is the highest legislature in Great Britain and consisted of the House of Lords and House of Commons. The Parliament made three acts because of the Seven Years’ war, which affected the colonist greatly. The three acts made by the Parliament included the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and the Tea Act. The Parliament made the acts to resolve issues and to enforce more laws, however, some acts made the colonist very upset and led up to events of commotion. The colonist had mixed emotions towards the act because some were liked and others were not.

Like all world national games everyone wants to be number one above all, they want to show that they are the best. But to reach there, you have components in which you need to build upon to get to that level. It’s just like the history of our country around the 1500's where countries were constantly battling each other trying to be on top with the policy known as Imperialism. Imperialism is the domination by one country or people over another group of people. But depending on who it comes from, Imperialism can be seen as something positive or negative.

Sarma , Mriganka Sekhar. “Masculinity,War and the Politics of Ethnic Identity: A Study of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.” Masculinity,War and the Politics of Ethnic Identity: A Study of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, vol. 6, no. 4, 2015, pp. 41–46. Sarma evaluates the connection between masculinity and race in a society that is dominated by war.

Men have conquered over land and made settlements, “large-scale organizations in the form of the state and corporations, which in great majority cases are masculinized and controlled by men” (Connell: 90). Even till this day men are more dominate in military, politics, and education. The imperialism social order created a hierarchy of masculinities, distinguishing between “real men” and “lesser men.” Women in this time were not even consider they were insignificant. The hierarchy showed that lesser men held little in value compared to real men. This meant that the lesser men were close in relation to women, which in this time value range from less to non-existing. This contributes to multiracial feminism because it shows inequality for women but men to that did not possess the qualities of the real

And with that, the hostile interaction will continue to exist between the two camps. In addition, this form of hostile and colonial relationship is forcing women in the “east” to dedicate time, intellectual product, and energy towards defending their society, tradition, faith, and underneath all that, their right to exist as people with history, culture, and

Imperialism is defined as “a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means” (Britannica, 2018). British imperialism had various consequences of Burma (Myanmar from 1989) in South East Asia over the past two centuries both positively and negatively in a number of ways. Some of these major consequences effected the country politically through the Anglo-Burmese wars, economically due to loss of trade to Britain and socially by losing the Burmese culture. The British imperial powers craved Burma and its territory during the struggle of their political rule throughout the Anglo-Burmese wars. The British rule in Burma lasted from the first Anglo-Burmese War in 1824, throughout

The article analyzes how French and German created a gendered image of the French colonial troops and the women in contact with them on the battlefields and the occupied zone in post-WWI Germany. Citing the articles, propaganda, and speeches created by political, military, and culture elites. In Germany, the colonial soldiers were described as “bloodthirsty, uncivilized and uncivilizable barbarians” (150). French women were licentious while their German counterparts posed as victims of the sex violence of the colonial troops (150). In French discourse, the image of women in these two countries is directly opposite to the image in German propaganda, while the colonial soldiers were also presented as bloodthirsty in the prewar period but transformed to “noble savage” after the war (150). Koller asserts that sexism in WWI was frequently aligned with European racism and nationalism

Furthermore, women are often seen as a symbol of cultural preservation and a measure of family honor. In conditions of war and colonial rule, which represents an attack on men’s honor and dignity, attention to women’s roles as prescribed by cultural tradition is often intensified. However, the unusual conditions of war and resistance to colonial rule also may provide openings for women to reconfigure their roles and rights, based on new needs of society.

The postcolonial era presents various issues for the decolonized nations, like the reconstruction of a government and the maintenance of an economy. In addition to that, the individual identity of the colonized people is a complex issue that they must cope with as well, and it is an issue that is still present today. Compared to the other issues of postcolonialism, the construction of one’s identity might appear trivial; however, there are many problems of postcolonial identity, including the obligation of one to perceive themselves as people do from the outside through stereotypes, and the difficulty of unifying two conflicting identities: one that is created by outside sources, and one that is created through personal experiences.