midterm

Question 1

Negative dimension of settler colonialism

Answer 1

-eliminating indigenous population
-eliminating indigenous political difference

Question 2

Positive dimension of settler colonialism

Answer 2

-Building settler soiceties on Indigenous
-Settlers come with sovereignty on their back
-Structures of settler society will reflect the logic of elimination
-Settlers claim control the Population Economy

Question 3

Historical variations of justifications of settler colonialism

Answer 3

Religious
Racial
Civilizational justifications
Developmental

Question 4

Coloniality as the underside of

Answer 4

Modernity

Question 5

Colonial Matrix of Power

Answer 5

Analyzing how power operates to maintain the colonial condition

Question 6

Eptistomolgy vs ontology

Answer 6

-Epistemology: how things are learned
-Ontology: what is real

Question 7

Enunciation is not a representation but

Answer 7

a constitution Intended to apply globally

Question 8

Race becomes real after

Answer 8

being enunciated

Question 9

Pluriversal decoloniality

Answer 9

Have multiple designs not single global designs

Question 10

(Exploitation) colonialism

Answer 10

• colonizers always retain the option of returning;
• exploitation of bodies, labor, and resources;
  -the colonizer and the native/the colonize

Question 11

Settler colonialism

Answer 11

-colonizers come to stay
-access to land and creation of new societies;
-the settler and the native/the Indigenous people

Question 12

Indigeneity needs to be understood in what context

Answer 12

Settler Colonialism

Question 13

Who said “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an even”

Answer 13

Patrick Wolfe

Question 14

The logic of elimination

Answer 14

for settlers to acquire and occupy the land legitimately, Indigenous presence needs to be eliminated

Question 15

Terra Nullius

Answer 15

unoccupied land can be appropriated and initial settlement grants title

Question 16

Different domains where Euro-Modern lifeways are made the standards

Answer 16

Authority: democracy,
Economy: capitalism, market economy
Knowledge: rationalism
Classification: gender and sexuality

Question 17

Decolonization

Answer 17

*Taking control of the state against colonial powers
*Does not necessarily imply changing how power is exercised

Question 18

Decoloniality

Answer 18

*Focus on changing the terms of the conversation, not on changing the content of the conversation
*Liberation of knowing and becoming
*Delinking from the imposed terms of the CM

Question 19

Sepúlveda’s imperial humanism

Answer 19

reasons for just war, coercion, and dispossession of Indigenous peoples; the role of empire in improving inferior peoples

Question 20

de las Casas’s natural law egalitarianism

Answer 20

: the universality and equality of natural law; reasons for limiting the jurisdiction and the authority of the church and of Spain; reason to respect religious practices; errors of reason; injustice of the conquest

Question 21

Pope Alexander VI’s bull Inter caetera

Answer 21

Division of the world between Spain and Portugal

Question 22

Introduction of the requerimiento in 1513

Answer 22

“This document was intended to ensure that the indigenes in question literally heard the Word of the Christian Gospel, so that they could then be later classified as having refused it, and therefore as Enemies-of-Christ

Question 23

Protector of the Indians

Answer 23

De las Casas

Question 24

Sublimis Deus

Answer 24

1537 Paul III: war and dispossession were not ways of bringing Indigenous peoples to the Christian faith

Question 25

The New Laws of 1542

Answer 25

the encomendias would not pass to the descendants of the conquistadores

Question 26

In 1550: Charles V

Answer 26

suspends all conquest until it can be assessed by theologians and scholars assembled at Valladolid

Question 27

Reasons of Sepulveda 4/

Answer 27

“(1) For the punishment of sins contra natura, or against natural law, like idolatry and cannibalism;
(2) on the basis of inferiority, infidel barbarians must naturally submit to the superior rule of virtuous Christians;
(3) for preventing injuries against the natives as seen in human sacrifice;
(4) for removing obstacles and securing a path for Christian preaching to facilitate conversion.

Question 28

On Decoloniality:
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

Answer 28

Walter Mignolo

Question 29

Valladolid debate text

Answer 29

Lantigua

Question 30

CMP Knowledge/Level

Answer 30

-Actors (CEO, Politicians, Uni pres)
-Language (French, English, Spanish)
-Institutions (Unis, museums, foundations, research centers)

Question 31

How is the CMP maintained

Answer 31

3 Pillars: Sex Race and Nature

Question 32

meum and tuum

Answer 32

what is mine and what is yours (property)