Intellectual Colonialism: Literacy Power Flashcards
Why was literacy so influential in the colonisation process? (1)
Literacy was associated with political power, dishonesty and injustice (1)
Why does Benedict Anderson say that the printing press creates Imagined Communities? (2)
The printing press controlled discourse (1)
Dominant ideogies that are controlled by those in power then become imagined nations run by the printing press (1)
What has been the primary function of writing in the evolution of mankind according to Levi-Strauss (1976)? (1)
Writing has functioned as a form of social control (1)
How does Levi-Strauss argue that writing leads to the exploitation of human beings? (3)
Writing serves in the creation of cities, states and empires (1)
Writing integates large numbers of people into a political system (1)
Writing grades people into castes and classes (1)
How did Levi-Strauss argue that writing facilitated slavery? (2)
Residential schools committed ethnocide by breaking oral transmission of knowledge (1)
Children were given new names and were punished for using their mother tongues and names (1)
What percentage of children that attended Canadian residential schools died? (1)
7%
Why don’t many Canadian residential school survivors tell their stories? (2)
Not sharing this information is seen as Indigenous resistance (1)
Refusing translations and full explanations to setters means that their knowledge won’t be exploited (1)
What is literacy actually about? (1)
What effects does literacy have on the government and the elite? (2)
The control of information (1)
Pen used to increase government control over citizens (1)
The evolution of the printing press cements the power of the elite (1)
Why were communication technologies so influential during colonisation? (3)
They changed human consciousness (1),
epistemological realities, (1)
ways of communication AND human relationships (1)
