Lecture #2 - White settler/colonialism Flashcards
What is “the west and the rest” all about?
- social classification
- Our concepts and ideas more than geographically places in the world
Who discussed the concept of the west and the rest
Stuart Hall
- Cultural theorist and sociologist
- Influential work in area of identity,racialization, ethnicity
What question did the old word ask the new world?
are they “true men” (humans)?
Religion from the old world was used to
ground truth
The old world used science to
separate them from us (slaves from men)
How has the discourse of the west and the rest functioned
- Allows us to characterize and classify societies into categories
- Condense complex images of other society’s through a system of representation
- Provide standard model of comparison
- Provide criteria of evaluation against which other societies can be ranked
Define discourse
A way of representing knowledge in relation to a topic (A set of assumptions, values, ways of thinking, talking about a certain subject matter to where it. Eo mess a certain way of thinking)
discourse operated in relation to
POWER
What were the 5 main phases involved in expansion of the west
1-Exploration
2-Early contact, conquest, settlement and colonization
3-Permanent European settlement, colonization and exploitation; capitalism goes global
4-Scramble for colonies; high noon of colonialism
5-The present phase of formal independence; globalization
What is “Eurocentrism”
Europe is the center of legitimate knowledge
What is orientalism
- ## a fantasy that asserts European superiority and Oriental inferiority
T or F: Assigning negative values to difference worked
to the advantage of colonizers
TRUE
European culture gained strength through
orientalism
Define Racializatio
-the process through which social meanings are attached to groups on the basis of superficial physical features
Define colonialism
the control over another people or peoples and their
territories by an imperial nation
Colonialism is a form of
imperialism
a settler society is based on
- replicating European society and institutions on non European soil
- lasting structural effects
what is the “doctrine of discovery”
The pope wrote a doctrine saying if you encounter a civilization that is not Christian you can take whatever you want/do what you want since the “others” are not the same as “us”
what is “Terra nullius”
• Legal fiction that asserted that allegedly “empty land”
could simply be declared European possessions
What is Royal proclamation
- Essentially an ongoing alive political issue because of the resistance of the treaty and as a result there is land reclaiming occurring
- modern treaties
