Deneme Sınavı Soruları

Which of the followings did colonialism fundamentally aim to achieve?

I. He is the pioneer of post-colonial theory in terms of both problematisation and terminology.

II. The post-colonialist theory was based on Fanon's works that first analysed and revealed colonialism as a fundamental problem of knowledge.

III. According to Fanon, it is necessary to play with the order of the new world by the colonial man and to render his rules unworkable.

Which of the above is correct regarding the Post-Colonial Scholar, Frantz Fanon?

Which theory urges to offer an alternative to the Eurocentric stance and notions of Western domination by challenging “western ideas” in all areas namely literature, history, linguistic, identity, gender?

1. migration
2. horizontal competition
3. vertical competition
4. minorities

Which of the above are defined as threat to societal security according to CS theory?

1. An existential threat that legitimizes the use of extraordinary measures
2. A securitizing actor in a position of authority and with enough social and political capital to convince an audience of the existence of an existential threat
3. The pursuit of freedom from threat and the ability of states and societies to maintain their independent identity and their functional integrity against forces of change which they see as hostile
4. Objects that carry historical connotations of threat, danger, and harm, or where a history of hostile sentiments exists

Which of the above are among the conditions on which securitization is most likely to succeed?

• He points at a simple fact by saying if colonialist’s life standards are high, this is due to the low level of the colonized people.
• It is not possible for the colonists to be unaware of the illegitimacy of their position, but on the contrary, the colonists demonstrate through their actions that they are aware that their welfare has actually been promoted through the misery of what they colonize.
• He put forward the ideas of “dual refusal” and “dual responsibility”.
• He experienced a dual exclusion from both the colonial and the colonized.
  Which post-colonial scholar is defined above?

Which of the following approach aims at removing the traditional dichotomy between system and unit levels of analysis in constructivism and tries to bridge the two domains?

Poststructuralist thought focuses on ____________ practices that produce the state-centric perspective (Devetak, 2005: 180, 181).

Which of the following is not one of the security sectors?

1. Discourse not only describes the world but also constructs it.
2. Language and discourse are quite important: object, subject, states, material structures etc. are constructed through the language.
3. You do/constitute something while you say something.
4. Sovereign states are constructed by discoursive practices, such as security discourse, immigration policies, policymakers’ discourse about national interest, economic invesment, threat, danger or existence of foreigners in their countries etc.

Which of the above can be used to strengthen the argument that “Discourses are not only constative but are also performative” in the context of poststructualism?

Which of the following has transformed philosophical school’s understanding of speech and writing, reading, texts and publications? 

I. "Discourse on Colonialism" was a book that became one of the most fundamental post-colonial writing.

II. He advocates that the pseudo-humanism makes the colonialist uncivilised and brutal.

III. He uses the concept of Negro and being black frequently in his works.

Which of the above is correct regarding the life of Aime Cesaire?

"To understand the social structures and the individuals acting according to the social parameters formed within this structure; the researchers should focus on changing historical conditions, not on time-independent and unchanging a priori ideas". 

Which of the following has made the statement above?

Which of the following refers to shifting an issue out of the realm of ‘normal’ political debate into the realm of emergency politics by presenting it as an existential threat?

Which of the issues below is not included in the conception of security according to the adherents of Copenhagen School?

Derrida designed deconstruction as a method of analysis based on the __________ that nothing in the text is random.

Who outlined the concept “deconstruction” first?

In terms of epistemology and methodology, constructivism can be divided into ______ main categories

In a ___________ system, states no longer see each other as enemies or rivals, but friends and “the scope of shared norms is much more extensive” and Wendt argues that this culture is the closest one to a collective security system.