CNST 361 Flashcards
Crenshaw
coined the term intersectionality
Articulation
- how ideological elements come to form an interlocking set of connections of which we are subject to in the material world
- how certain discursive formations come to define our ability to understanding the world
Myth
-instrument for self identification drawing its justification from an ideological interpretation of the past
-search for a past
-our entire way of thinking of who we are
-idealization of history (events, people, organizations, idea) to suit the purposes of the present and represent the values of community often the powerful.
Necessitates 3 Principles:
1.ahistoricism
2.essentialism
3.teleology
Daniel Francis Failed National Myths
- Canada as Northern People
- CPR
- RCMP
- British master race
- Canadian as a cultural mosiac
Invented Traditions
- Historian Eric Hobsbawm theorized that many traditions recent and artificial
- Presentation of authenticity, legitimacy in the appearance of longevity
- Tradition repeats past images and symbols draw from mythical past
3 Elements of Invented Traditions
- Traditions which express social cohesion of nations and communities- singing national anthem
- Traditions that legitimize existing order, status, institutions or authority- saluting flag
- Traditions that socialize individuals to certain rules or behaviors- pink/blue
Imagined Communities
- Benedict Anderson views nations as social constructs
- Even in smallest nation, will never all know each other
- Yet all engage with construct of mind what we think of as Canada
- Has physical reality with borders, sovereignty
- Key is collapse of privileged access to knowledge with rise of mass literacy
- Mass print in the 18th century allows the masses to create and imagine a nation
- Concomitant with unification of states and nations under single monarchical rulers in Europe in 17th and 18th centuries
- Links urbanization and industrialization to the modern nation state
- Nationalism unifies peoples and territories, nationalism modern invention that produces nations (does not discover or reveal them)
Nationalism, Nation and National Identity Anthony Smith
Nationalism: ideological movement to attain/maintain autonomy, unity, identity within actual or potential nation
Nation: named and self=id community, share myths memories symbols values and traditions. reside in historic homeland, distinctive public culture, customs, common laws
National Identity: continuous reproduction and reinterpretation of pattern of values symbol memories myths traditions that form heritage of nations and self-id with that pattern and heritage
Anthony Smith and Ethnie
- Smith emphasized the importance of ethnicity for most definitions of nation
- Myth-symbol complex provides the ethnic with muths of ancestry/historic memories’borders of cultural difference and a common name
- Mythomoteur: constitutive myth of the ethnie- its purpose
Hegemony as a Process
- re-inscribe power relations and delegit alternatives
- creation of a population and social order dependent on inequality
- absorb some grievances of some groups, subsequently labelled as legit
- always part of the system, part of a process of co-optation, enactment and legitimization
Foucaltian Power of Normalization
- compares
- differentiates
- hierachizes
- homogenizes
- excludes
Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy
- all exist with legal, theoretical, formal equality
- George Orwell: all animals are equal, some more equal than others
- social relations are not equal or equitable on the ground and inequities are not easily quantifiable
- valorization of individualism
- fetishization of choice, as long as one makes proper decision from predetermined selection of options
- tolerance but only if fit neatly in to the whole
Bagot Commission 1842-1844
- First GG of United Province of Canada
- Investigate and revise Indian Policy, encourage civilization at low cost
- Concluded Crown owned Indian land and was obligated to civilize it
- Should impose freehold tenure, abolish communal property and traditions
- Protect Indians from corrupting influence of the city and white speculators through reservations
- Allow Indians to become self governing
- Residential schools Mohawk Institute as idela
Reserves
- before confederation
- Atlantic: colonial gvt created reserves through order in council or buying private land and re settling INDG people on it
- Ontario: treaties signed 1780-1860, reserved lands held in trust by the Crown
- Relocation in exchange for tools, supplies, education, fisihing/hunting rights and annuities (not indexed to inflation
Gradual Civilization Act
- 1857
- Enfranchised if read and write, over 21, good moral character, educated
- Judged by Indian agents/missionaries
- Enfranchised Indian no longer Indian but deemed British subject
- Lose last name, given some land away from reserve, vote, but renounce all claims to traditional lands/hunting privileges
HBC
-monopoly over all trade of Rupert’s land, owned and governed the territory
Expansionism and Manifest Destiny
- border skirmishes and debates US v.s BNA 1830-1860
- Aggressive American challenges, push for expansion
- Maybe not barren wasteleand as claimed by HBC
Hind and Palliser
- HBC Charter up for renewal 1859, wanted more accurate picture of Rupert’s Land, HBC claim wasteland
- Government geologist Hind Canadian and Palliser British explore area, report fertile parkland belt, suitable for settlement
- Exactly what expansionist commercial elite in Montreal and Toronto wanted to hear
Annexation of NW
- Ruperts Land Act transferred RL and NWT from HBC to Canadian government 1869
- No FN consultation, provoked anger
National Policy of John A. Mac
- high tariffs protect central Canadian manufacturing
- building transcontinental railway to unify nation and encourage Western settlement
- Western settlement being prevented by the irrational Indian
Metis and Red River Rebellion
- Collapse of buffalo hunt
- disease, crop failure, conflict over land between Ontario settlers and Metis
- led to social dislocation
- Louis Reil and Red River Rebellion 1869-1970. rebel against transfer of land in Ruperts Land Act. Led to creation of Manitoba.
- Metis and FN signed treaties formally est reserve system with promise of farms, seeds and agricultural training.
- Signed bc widespread starvation and fear for future, signed in bad faith. misunderstandings
- 1870’s, learn that buffalo hide cheap alternative to leather for machine belts, leds to basic extinction
Indian Act 1876
- status system. Indian or Canadian but not both
- solidified reserve system, not tribal collective as definitive of indigenous identity
- Indian agents (government representative on the ground) determined whether Status or not. assign status cards
- Could become enfranchised by selling land and allowing it to become private property but then no longer indigenous
- patriarchal societal model