The rejection of the idea that there is a 'correct' or 'standard' English and that other forms are inferior.
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Alterity
The state of being 'other'.
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Catalysis
The New World experience of different groups interacting and creating new branches of identity
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Creolization
A process where new cultures arise from racial and ethnic mixing
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Diaspora
The voluntary or forced migration of people from their native homelands.(Literature on this topic often concerned with maintaining or altering identity in the new land.)
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Essentialism
The idea that each identity/group has a set of essential characteristics that define them and distinguish them from others.
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Eurocentrism
When European ideas are viewed as being the natural, normal or universal ones.
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Exoticism
When a cultural practice is made exciting from the coloniser's perspective because of its difference.
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Globalization
Where individual local communities/places become affected by worldwide economic and cultural forces.
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Hegemony
The power of the ruling class to convince people that their interests are the interests of all.
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Metanarrative
A cultural story that claims to reveal the truth about the world and, within the one story, explain all the local stories too.
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Nativism
A desire to return to a precolonial version of a society
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Orientalism
The creation of an ideal, exotic 'other' from the coloniser's perspective
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Subaltern
The way that colonised people who have little access to their native language are reliant upon the language of the colonisers to express themselves.
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Ecological Imperialism
The way colonoised societies are transformed
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Ethnicity
A fusion of traits that belong to a specific group of people (different from race) including values, norms, behaviours, experiences.
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Speciesism.
The idea that humans are distinct from and superior to other animals.
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Worlding
When a person/culture/group is brought into the dominant Western global society.
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Difference feminism
Focused on the idea that men and women are biologically, psychologically and emotionally different.
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Misogynoir
Hatred of black women
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Phallocentrism
Treating the masculine as the normal or centre in the construction of meaning
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Phallogocentrism
How phallocentrism is impliedly adopted into language
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Transfeminism
Includes anyone who self identifies as a woman.
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Ableism
Pervasive system of discrimination disadvantaging those with physical and mental disabilities.
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Androgyny
Having both masculine and feminine characteristics or being neither female nor male.
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Bigender
Tendency to move between masculine and feminine depending on the context
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Binary
Classification of gender into two seperate, distinct opposites.
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Body Policing
Behaviour attempting to control a person's body or behaviour in regard to their body, often relating to gender expression or size
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Compulsory ablebodiedness
The idea that the able body is the normal
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Compulsory heterosexuality
The idea that heterosexuality is the normal and other sexualities are alternatives
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Disability
An impairement of bodily or cognotive function. A social relation that occurs when the disabled body interacts with society
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Gender non conforming
Behaviour which does not conform to gender roles
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Genderqueer
An umbrella term for identities which fall outside the binary
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Hegemony
Domination of one political group over society
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Heteronormativity
A worldview that promotes heterosexuality as the normal and enforces it through institutions such as marriage, adoption etc. Applies pressure to hetero and homo people to behave in heterosexual normalised ways to be included in the institutions.
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Heterosexism
Bias towards heterosexuals and the assumption that everyone is heterosexual
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Queer
An umbrella term for any behaviours or bodies that deviate from the norm
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Queer theory
The examination and critique of society using queerness as a lens to illustrate how the world operates along normative vs non normative expectations.
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Transgender
Individuals, gender expressions and behaviours that do not 'match' biological sex and assumed gender.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
The state of being 'other'.
Back
Alterity
Card 3
Front
The New World experience of different groups interacting and creating new branches of identity
Back
Card 4
Front
A process where new cultures arise from racial and ethnic mixing
Back
Card 5
Front
The voluntary or forced migration of people from their native homelands.(Literature on this topic often concerned with maintaining or altering identity in the new land.)
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