Orientalism and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons

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Race Colonialism and Nuclear Weapons Module
Race Colonialism and Nuclear Weapons Module, Sana Rahim

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Through this case study of the representations of Pakistan’s nuclear programs, students will:

Acquire knowledge and understanding of Orientalism, and more specifically, Nuclear Orientalism in relation to the case of Pakistan.
Develop the skills to critically analyse discourse and identify Orientalist stereotypes in nuclear discourse.

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Topic / Subject Matter	Nuclear Weapons, Other
Skillset	Critical Thinking, Cross-cultural Understanding
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Download Category	Educational, Nuclear
Content Tag	Decolonizing Nuclear Studies, DNS, Nuclear Weapons, Orientalism, Pakistan
Activity Type	Online module
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Recommended Reading	Barkawi, T. and Laffey, M. (2006) 'The postcolonial moment in security studies', Review of International Studies, 32(02), p. 329. doi: 10.1017/S0260210506007054. Biswas, S. (2001) “Nuclear Apartheid” as Political Position: Race as a Postcolonial Resource?', Alternatives, 26(4), pp. 485-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/030437540102600406 Biswas, S. (2014) Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order. Minneapolis, United States: University of Minnesota Press. Campbell, D. (1998b) Writing Security Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press. Gusterson, H. (1999), ‘Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination’, Cultural Anthropology, 14:1, 111-143. Gusterson, H. (2004) People of The Bomb: Portraits of America’s nuclear complex London: University of Minnesota Press Lele, J. (1994) 'Orientalism and Social Sciences'. in Breckenridge, Veer, C.A. and der, P.v. (eds.) Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Said, E. (2001a) Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin Books. Spivak, G. C. (1988) 'Can the Subaltern Speak?', Die Philosophin, 14(27), pp. 42-58. Spivak, G. C. (2005) 'Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular', Postcolonial Studies, 8(4), pp. 475-486. Vaughan, T. (2013) Asian Fury: Gender, Orientalism and the Indo-Pakistan Nuclear 'Threat' In US Foreign Policy Discourse, 1998 – 2009', p. 36

Learning Objectives

Acquire knowledge and understanding of Orientalism, and more specifically, Nuclear Orientalism in relation to the case of Pakistan.
Develop the skills to critically analyse discourse and identify Orientalist stereotypes in nuclear discourse.

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