PSCI 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anti-Racism, Diego Rivera, First Nations
25 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
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Anuj Sharma 100987657
PSCI 3307 - Politics of Human Rights
Instructor: Peter Atack
2018-05-30
Lecture Seven
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Words, Concepts, Persons, Places:
-Indigenous, Martin Scheinin, Jose Martinez Cobo, C, B. Macpherson, possessive
individualism, reconquista, requerimiento, encomienda, Valladolid debate, terra nullius,
homestead acts, Sequoyah, syllabary, Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears, interculturalisme,
Royal Proclamation of 1763, Degonawidah, condolence system
Learning Outcomes:
-To understand why indigenous rights make us uncomfortable
-To examine the conflict between liberalism and collective rights
-To acknowledge the different historical basis for treatment of indigenous peoples:
Spanish, British and Canadian?
Definition of Who Are Indigenous Peoples:
-Martin Scheinin, Jose Martinez Cobo:
-1) Distinctive from the dominant society and self-identify and desire to be different
-2) Connected to their lands for and from and form history, culture, economy and
spirituality
-3) They have occupied their lands since time immemorial
Liberal Individualism:
-C. B. Macpherson: Possessive individualism and the rise of capitalism
-Severance of links between identity and place, roles, communities.
Marx and the Creative Destruction of Capitalism:
-Communist Manifesto: “Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted
disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of
ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones
become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is
profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of
life, and his relations with his kind.”
Indigenous Peoples, Community and Identity:
-Individual’s relationship with the collective not merely utilitarian, also necessary for
health and balance of the individual
-Community exists prior to individual
-Service central to our wellbeing
Do Indigenous Rights Conflict with the Right to Equal Treatment?
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