Stuart Hall's The West & The Rest

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This factsheet aims to explain Stuart Hall’s idea of “the west and the rest” as a discourse. The factsheet begins by defining discourse and then explores how discourse functions to produce and reproduce the certain ideas.

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References

Hall, S. (2018). "The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power". In Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002710

Source Authors

Stuart Hall

Keywords

Challenge Assumptions, Constructing Difference, Deconstructing Popular Ideas, Inclusions & Exclusions, Interrupting Assumptions, Knowledge and Power, Language and Power, Language of Difference, Representations and Power, Resistant Knowledge, Social Ideas and Power, The 'West', Unlearning and Relearning

Themes

Activism