Ünite Sınavı Soruları

It was an act of geographical violence, a geographical violence employed against indigenous people and their land rights (Said, 1993: 1-15).

It involved an extraordinary range of different forms and practices carried out with respect to radically different cultures, over many centuries (Young, 2001:17).

Which term is mentioned by the sentences above?

• “Discourse on Colonialism” (1955) is his book which later became one of the most fundamental works of post-colonial writing.
• He advocates that the pseudo-humanism that is actually the colonialist has got a fake understanding of humanity. Pseudo-humanism makes the colonialist uncivilized and brutal.
• He uses the concept of Negro frequently in his work and being black he argued that they need simply awareness and this reality was identified by him to accept the fate of black, history and culture.
  Which post-colonial scholar is mentioned above?

Which of the below post-colonial figures thought pseudo-humanism makes the colonialist uncivilized and brutal? 

According to Morgenthau, which of the followings does imperialism aim to destroy in order to change power relations between two or more states in their favor?

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?

1. It allows the individual to exist as the only unit within all social fields.
2. It is quite deterministic and shaped by the adaptation of scientific knowledge to the process of production and consumption in economy by separating space and time.
3. It retains a deep underlying continuity with the optimistic tradition of rationality, realism, and materialism.
4. In the framework of this concept, the control of nature and a system based on knowledge will ensure human salvation.
   Which concept is defined above?

Which of the below figures considered colonial phenomenon as an opportunity for cultural exchange? 

Which of the following is an example for settler colonies?

I. The West is seen as being essentially rational, developed and human.

II. Orientalists see themselves as the centre of the world and the other as periphery.

III. "White against Black" and "Reason against Magic" were among the contradictions Orientalism raised.

Which of the above is correct regarding the Orientalism?

I. She developed and produced all of her analyses through the technique of Derrida's deconstruction.

II. She comments on feminist theory specifically with post-colonialist perspective.

III. She considers the colonial phenomenon as a opportunity for cultural exchange.

Which of the above is correct for Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak?

Who was the name of the post-colonial scholar who advocated that it is not possible for the colonists to be unaware of the illegitimacy of their position?

Who acknowledges that imperialism is an expression of the desire for unlimited expansion which is considered as an irrational behaviour and also as a remnant of atavistic social culture?

Which of the following scholar is not among the Post-Colonial Scholars? 

I- colonialism is not over

II- the period is not clearly known

III-There are differences between immigrants and third world countries

Which of the above are the criticisms against post-colonialism?

• His book Foucault’s Madness and Civilization (1961) functioned as a founding study of the way in which society has produced its forms of exclusion.
• He argued that “the other” is marginalized from the society, that is, “mad is separated from rational person” in the context of social dynamics, because mad could not produce his/her knowledge and could not use any judiciously.
• In international dynamics, mad represent colonized people who are never allowed, or invited to speak as “the other” in the international system.
  Which is the thinker defined above?

Which of the followings did orientalists aim to legitimize?

According to Marx, what is the main difference between earlier colonialism and modern colonialism?

Which theory is explained by the sentences below?

I. Moving from the idea of God-centered to human-centered thinking, its sole purpose has been to defeat nature and to achieve a better and more beautiful life.

II. It allows the individual to exist as the only unit within all social fields. It does not permit the ontology of identities public representation and the original formation of the subject at all.

• He considers the colonial phenomenon as an opportunity for cultural exchange.
• He suggests that colonial authority is necessarily rendered ‘hybrid’ and ‘ambivalent’ when it is imitated or reproduced, thus opening up spaces for the colonized to subvert the masterdiscourse.
• He points out that the discourse of colonialism is frequently populated with ‘terrifying stereotypes of savagery, cannibalism, lust and anarchy’.
  Whose take on colonialism is define above?