What is Hybridity? | Homi Bhabha | Keyword

In this episode, I try to present Homi Bhabha's notion of "hybridity."

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[DD-hzdw]

Why are Post colonial 'thinkers' write in such a complex ways when they can write in simple. Once when understand their work it feels quite ordinary not as complex as they project themselves?

[uniquechannelnames]

Thanks for all your work discussing these topics, despite the millions of hours of video uploaded to youtube, there really doesn't seem to be a an abundance of philosophy and related topics covered very often. Algorithm, please bless this man with the people.

Also your voice is extremely relaxing, something about your demeanor is just very calming and relaxing.

[sophienickel]

You are saving my life. I am a first-year undergrad trying to survive my Globalization/Contemporary art history class

[ipshitajee]

My mind is going to melt with this Literary theory paper today 😭😭

[abi]

you just completely saved my behind whilst writing a paper on post-colonial statecraft. i knew i had to address bhabha, but kept putting it off due to the difficulty of the text. but i took a deep breath, found your video, made some notes and voila! in 45 minutes, i have something on bhabha that i can be proud of. thank you.

[hoddy]

A very helpful and thoughtful interpretation of Bhabha's work. Thank you for posting this- very much appreciated.

[alicegrobberio]

Thank you, this video was very helpful! Also, nice eyebrows.

[beagarrido]

You have just saved my MA! Thank you so much for such a clear explanation on this extremely complicated issue.

[Hervebutoyi]

I am doing a project at uni at the moment about Denmark's colonization of Greenland and I REALLY appreciate your video.

[rererefgerg]

Thank you so much! This concept was stumping me. Great video ☺️

[carolmanzaneque]

thank you SO MUCH!!! I've spent like a week trying to understand this for my undergrad dissertation and I felt like going crazy but your video saved my life

[finhammatt]

I think you underestimate the subversive potential of hybridity. Many revolutionary and post colonial leaders had hybrid identities in the sense that they were educated in European schools, wore European clothing and borrowed from european political, legal and ideological traditions. Examples include Gandhi, Sun yat sen, Sukarno. As well as the political systems they erected. It should also be noted that the middle classes were often those most predisposed to national independence and they were often educated in the western institutions.

[ruimvdd]

this text completes so much my current research, thank you!

[kindredspirit]

This is very helpful before I tackle the original text.

[MuhammadAli-rpee]

Would you please give some examples of hybridity in the eyes of Homi Bhabha?

[SinginTheDream]

Hi David! Thanks for a helpful video. I'm just wondering if you would consider delving deeper into Bhabha's theories - I've been struggling to understand concepts such as mimicry and ambivalence, it would be super if you could help break that down too if you have some time! Thanks again for a great channel.

[bvification]

A perfect state of equality as a cultural condition cannot be obtained because culture is fictional—a hybrid of the real and simulation. This is different from equality and hierarchy which are conditions of the real and simulation which colonized and colonizers position themselves into. To postulate a position of equality is to put oneself in direct relation to hierarchy and, at best, adopt the identities imposed onto them by the supposedly dominant group. At worst, as frantz fanon suggests, colonized people just become colonizers in suppressing the colonizers under the guise of equality/ criticality. To bhabha’s point, only by relishing in an ambivalent state of transgression between equal and hierarchical can you really subvert the tendencies of establishing a dominant status quo or adopting a position of submission. The sense of not knowing what this kind of idea would yield is sort of the point—it does not promise the certainty in a particular future of a dominant narrative. Liberation is the unlimited possibility that necessitates a constant engagement with one’s own position

[imaginanalyst]

I haven't read Homi Bhaba, but I am familiar with colonizing through dualism. Could it be that your assessment of his notion of hybridity is based in a moral hierarchy whereas Homi Bhaba's frame of mind was trying to reach for a kind of moral nondualism that is such a common feature of Indian culture? It seems to me that in India there is an attempt to accept all things as neither very good nor very bad, just drops in an ocean. Whether that is hopelessly apathetic or timelessly sage is not clear.

[jodyvankuijk]

The way you explain this is so good it gives me goosebumps.

[shraddhachatterjee]

Sir, can you please explain if I am dealing with the Indian diaspora in the United States of America- Will the Indian diasporic life be considered as hybridized since the U.S. and India both remained as the colonized parts back in the past. There is no concept of higher and lower authority here, then.