Melancholia -
“Is the concept of ‘melancholia’ helpful for understanding postcoloniality?”

Contents:
A Brief History of ‘Melancholia’
Melancholia in Sociology
Mitscherlich’s Melancholia of Germany
Gilroy’s Melancholia of Post-Colonial Britain
Butler’s Melancholia of Freud
Melancholic Postcoloniality
Bengali Hindus in Berne
Germany’s Next Topmodel by Heidi Klum
Conclusion: Varying uses of Melancholia – Melancholia everywhere?

Written for Gender and Postcolonial Theory
MSc in Race, Ethnicity and [...]

European Subjectivities –
Comparing Subject Formations of ‘the West’

This text will look at the concept of ‘The West’:
How it is used to define a territory, a population, a mindset or subject.
Further, how this subject came into being, what its philosophical foundations are.
This will help explain the social consequences from thinking within the [...]