Tropicality Flashcards
David Arnold tropicality argument..
Tropics need to be seen as invented as much as they were encountered, as a conceptual, not just physical space.
What is an example of Tropicality?
Post WW2 image of militancy: combative, belligerent, and seditious.
Othering
Denuding the humanity of another culture, people, or geographical region
What does othering need ot include?
Exclusion of peoples, and inclusion of certain populations to control colonised/subaltern groups.
What is violence/disposession of indigenous peoples?
A structure perpetuating itself through political-economic configurations in settler societies.
What highlighted Brazillian domestic policy fragility?
Political crises, financial recession, and a global pandemic.
What is an example of Brazil’s economic fragility?
2012/16 financial recession increased deforestation by 70%.
Ecocide
Extensive anthropogenic ecosystem degradation contrainsing quality of life.
How does extractivism, indigenous disposession, and exploitation proceed?
State and corporate developmentalist plans
Hypothesis of what underpins Amazon land development:
Drive for modernization from Brazil’s early colonial period
Settler Colonialism
Colonialism premised on land acquisition and population replacement, contrasting being premised on resource exploitation and surplus labour markets.
What are examples of geographical-colonial links?
Native African labour in settler economy in Natal, racilized labour hierarchies to building transcontinental railroad, furthering settlement of indigenous land in North America.
Examples of colonialism use of settler economy:
Transcontinental railroad used racialized labour hierarchicies in North America
One-Drop Rule
The idea that a single drop of African heritage makes a person Black
Examples of Racialization based on societal roles:
Black people reproduction slavery economy, Indigenous obstruction land access, racial classification logic of elimination ‘blood quantum’/
