Overview

This course intends to search the roots of this division (and later, a unilateral, cultural, political and economic domination) from the fundamental characteristics of ancient civilisations throughout the globe, to the more recent establishment of capitalism and its gradual ascension to a world order. Throughout the course, the concepts of ‘Colonialism’, ‘Imperialism’, ‘Postcolonialism’ and ‘Orientalism’, as well as ‘Westernisation’, ‘Modernisation’ and ‘Development’ will be discussed, expanded and problematized, from historical, sociological, anthropological, cultural, political and psychoanalytic perspectives.