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Critique of Knowing the World Ontopologically
For your third essay, you are required to write an essay in which you focus on a specific
homeland in the world. The homeland on which you focus may be conceived in terms
of a variety of concepts and spaces, such as: nation, state, territory, region, hemisphere,
continent, global, cosmopolis etc? The key is to take as your focus some form of space
in the world that has gained specific identity as the homeland of one or more
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identifiable groups, whose own identity or identities are understood in relation to this
space as a site of belonging. So, you could be examining the relation of homeland to
things like a national group, cultural relations, religious affiliation, property owners,
ethnic group, an economic partnership, the human species, and so forth. As with the
two previous essays, choose something in the world that interest you, as something to
investigate and learn about. And, topically, this focus should differ from any subjects
you have taken up as your focus in either of the two previous essays you have written
in this course.
Your main task in this essay is to critically consider how the relationship of
homeland is established between the identifiable social group and the space within
which its identity is supposedly contained. Your goal is to develop an essay in which
you critically examine and consider fundamental ways in which we could see how the
relationship between identity and territory is established and, therefore, how the
specific homeland that is your focus is built and, consequently, how it can also falter
and fail.
In developing and writing this essay, you are required to draw on questions,
problems, and insights developed by Manning in her Ephemeral Territories. The main
goal of writing this essay is to show that you understand the critical questions that
Manning is raising about ontopological readings of ourselves in the world, meaning: the
connections that we make between human social identities and the delineations of
territory. In writing this essay, you should be aiming to pick out key problems and
insights that Manning develops regarding the relations of identity and territory. And
you should be trying to show good understandings of the ways in which these relations
are formed in practices that are social, political, and cultural and character, rather than
natural. So, it is expected in this essay that you engage quite directly and significantly
with Manning’s book.
In drawing from and engaging the arguments and insights developed by
Manning, your essay should focus on and study five forms in which the social identity
and territory of the homeland that interests you are brought together. You should be
bringing to bear the questions and insights of Manning on these five practices of
‘homelanding’. These five forms should each be different in kind from one another and
may include such things as: written histories; maps; works of visual art; songs;
ceremonies; images; propaganda; government policies and laws; and any other
documents, texts, events, etc. through which the relation of identity to land is
performed.
To adequately prepare for this assignment, it is crucial that you attend and
participate in all of the classes in which we discuss and engage Manning’s Ephemeral
Territories, which includes classes on October 22, 24, 29, & 31 and November 5 & 7,
being sure to take careful notes and to participate actively in class discussion on this
issue.
This essay should be composed of six basic components: an introduction; a
thesis statement in the introduction; a body of arguments substantiated by textual
evidence from and analysis of Manning’s book and the five different forms/practices of
‘homelanding’ you investigate; a conclusion; textual references; and a bibliography.
And you should accomplish the following in each one:
Introduction: In the introduction you should briefly present the topic that you
are addressing, indicating what form of homeland you are critically investigating
in terms of the relation of social identity and territory. And you should briefl
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