What event helped lead to the decolonization of South America - Answers-The
Napoleonic Wars
The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was - Answers-a policy of exclusion meant to direct
European powers to stay out of America
When did most of the countries in south american gain independence - Answers-during
the 1800's
The US never supported or aided dictators in South America - Answers-False
Why did South America experience a left-wing resurgence during the beginning of the
21st century - Answers-the neoliberal economic experiments were considered a failure
by some countries
Grovogui claims that postcolonial theory does not assign states responsibilities within
the international community. It only critiques the 'white man's burden' notion of duty that
'great states' have now. - Answers-FALSE
postcolonialism is also certain of its responsibility and duty toward other members of the
international community.
Feminists have claimed that only by introducing gender analysis could the differential
impact of the state system and the global economy on the lives of women and men be
fully understood. - Answers-true
Liberal feminism - Answers-draws attention to the subordinated position of women and
suggests that their equality can be achieved by removing legal obstacles
Critical feminism - Answers-explores the ideational and material manifestations of
gendered identities and gendered power in global politics.
Constructivist feminism - Answers-focuses on the way that ideas about gender shape
and are shaped by the global political arena.
Poststructuralist feminism - Answers-is particularly concerned with the way dichotomize
linguistic constructions serve to empower the masculine over the feminine.
Postcolonial feminism - Answers-suggests that Western feminists have constructed
prejudicial knowledge about non-Western women, universalizing Western desires.
Feminist work has broadened the definition and analysis of security with particular
interest in understanding economic insecurity as it differentially affects women. -
Answers-true
, Carol Cohn suggests that what was striking about the defense professionals who
abstracted war and plotted mass death was that they were charming and likable. -
Answers-true
Central American countries were unaffected by the cold war - Answers-False
A Banana Republic refers to - Answers-A country largely dependent on exporting a limit
resource product, and operates as a commercial enterprise for private profit
Roughly what percentage of Indigenous peoples in the Americas were killed off due to
violence and disease brought by the Europeans? - Answers-90%
What are two big problems facing Central America - Answers-high inequality & legacy of
civil war and conflict
The first country to gain independence in the Caribbean and Central America was: -
Answers-Haiti
To the Oglala Lakota Nation, what area is sacred? - Answers-The Black Hills
What does the bi-polar system of the mid-twentieth century refer to? - Answers-
Competing power between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
What was the United Fruit Company? - Answers-An American corporation with immense
power in Central American
What is the Dependency Theory - Answers-unequal balance of in flow of money and
balance in-between core, periphery and semi-periphery states.
What is Buen Vivir? - Answers-A concept of the good life centered on community and
well-being of humans, animals and nature as a whole.
The "Washington Consensus" refers to? - Answers-US report for neoliberal economic
reforms in South America
Who is Evo Morales - Answers-Indigenous activist and president of Bolivia
David Campbell suggests that the relationship between knowledge and power is that
power shapes knowledge - Answers-true
postructuralism is intersted in - Answers-the social construction of meaning
the linguistic construction of reality
the historicity of knowledge
divorcing from empiricism to post-empiricism
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