Post Colonialism

Acceptance of colonial, imperialist understanding in the current economic, political fields still taking place in the current global system. The capitalist economic system also play an important role in that understanding, even Marx’s idea of colonialism could be seen as has lost its meaning, actually, imperialism and colonialism change its shape and still exist in the current asymmetrical power of the global structure. Beginning with the 1950s colonial power lost their colonies, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist resistance and nationalist also the religious movements started to take place to form their own reality according to their belief, culture, history than their colonizers’ thought on them. Post-colonialism occurred opposite to colonialist

I will talk about some reform that implemented during the Turkey’s modernization process with the E. Said’s Orientalism which contributes a lot to post-colonialism in the sense of counterargument to the looking the Middle East, Africa or Asia by the view of Occident. In the work of Foucault, his power knowledge which questions the object of knowledge and producer of knowledge and these all construct about the power relations of the different actors and in this sense Turkey’s acceptance the knowledge of the West. In addition, I will write the development process of Turkey with the Escobar’s criticization on it which that development discourse led to lots of crisis and

Very little of the detail, the human density, the passion of Arab–Moslem life has entered the awareness of even those people whose profession it is to report the Arab world. What we have, instead, is a series of crude, essentialized caricatures of the Islamic world, presented in such a way as to make that world vulnerable to military aggression.” (Said,1980) Said, used standpoint theory to understand the knowledge production that created by the powerful side and try to understand in an not objective, impersonal way but through the person who is Orient that named by the West. Today we re seeing the orientalist arguments in everywhere like in media, political administrations of states that use this perspective for their political strategy.

Ataturk’s ideology of Kemalism mainly affected by the secular, rational, modernist, developed country of the Eurocentric image, so during the foundation of Turkey lots of reforms made to reach the goal to be this kind of European country. Modernisation of Turkish alphabet which means replace the Arabic alphabet to Latin one, which the used by a European country. Even we can see that notion of modern one is Latin alphabet and the old, backward one is the Arab alphabet is very problematic