midterm Flashcards
Negative dimension of settler colonialism
-eliminating indigenous population
-eliminating indigenous political difference
Positive dimension of settler colonialism
-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
Historical variations of justifications of settler colonialism
Religious
Racial
Civilizational justifications
Developmental
Coloniality as the underside of
Modernity
Colonial Matrix of Power
Analyzing how power operates to maintain the colonial condition
Eptistomolgy vs ontology
-Epistemology: how things are learned
-Ontology: what is real
Enunciation is not a representation but
a constitution Intended to apply globally
Race becomes real after
being enunciated
Pluriversal decoloniality
Have multiple designs not single global designs
(Exploitation) colonialism
- colonizers always retain the option of returning;
- exploitation of bodies, labor, and resources;
-the colonizer and the native/the colonize
Settler colonialism
-colonizers come to stay
-access to land and creation of new societies;
-the settler and the native/the Indigenous people
Indigeneity needs to be understood in what context
Settler Colonialism
Who said “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an even”
Patrick Wolfe
The logic of elimination
for settlers to acquire and occupy the land legitimately, Indigenous presence needs to be eliminated
Terra Nullius
unoccupied land can be appropriated and initial settlement grants title
Different domains where Euro-Modern lifeways are made the standards
Authority: democracy,
Economy: capitalism, market economy
Knowledge: rationalism
Classification: gender and sexuality
Decolonization
*Taking control of the state against colonial powers
*Does not necessarily imply changing how power is exercised
Decoloniality
*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
Sepúlveda’s imperial humanism
reasons for just war, coercion, and dispossession of Indigenous peoples; the role of empire in improving inferior peoples
de las Casas’s natural law egalitarianism
: 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
Pope Alexander VI’s bull Inter caetera
Division of the world between Spain and Portugal
Introduction of the requerimiento in 1513
“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
Protector of the Indians
De las Casas
Sublimis Deus
1537 Paul III: war and dispossession were not ways of bringing Indigenous peoples to the Christian faith
The New Laws of 1542
the encomendias would not pass to the descendants of the conquistadores
In 1550: Charles V
suspends all conquest until it can be assessed by theologians and scholars assembled at Valladolid
Reasons of Sepulveda 4/
“(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.
On Decoloniality:
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Walter Mignolo
Valladolid debate text
Lantigua
CMP Knowledge/Level
-Actors (CEO, Politicians, Uni pres)
-Language (French, English, Spanish)
-Institutions (Unis, museums, foundations, research centers)
How is the CMP maintained
3 Pillars: Sex Race and Nature
meum and tuum
what is mine and what is yours (property)
