ideologies of oppression: race, progress and exploitation

Question 1

ideologies

Answer 1

set of ideas and beliefs that justify, naturalize and reinforce political structures/ relations

Question 2

aspects of ideologies that justify colonialism

Answer 2

1. race
2. progress and civilization
3. vanishing race
4. terra nullius
5. claimed sovereignty of the state

Question 3

what is the concept of the vanishing race?

Answer 3

social Darwinist logic that affirms that indigenous peoples are primitives doomed to be superceded by more advanced societies

Question 4

what is Terra Nullius?

Answer 4

asserts that settlers arrived in empty lands or lands that they did not consider to be occupied

Question 5

problems with Terra Nullius

Answer 5

1. denies Indg. presence
2. indg. peoples’ use of land needs to be replaced with something more advanced -> indg. people can be replaced
3. title of land requires its efficient use