GEOG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Capital Accumulation, Agribusiness, Mass Production
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture 2: food systems in context: industrialization and colonialism. People and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. hegel. So we must look to history to find solutions. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. george orwell. History forces us not to generalize or believe things to be universal. A regime of expansion from europe to access land and resources abroad, i. e. imperialism and colonialism. Here to stay-ness of settler colonialism: founded on seizing indigenous land for settlement and agriculture. Colonialism is an enduring structure and not a one-off event. European settler colonialism relied on private property right for settlers: i claim it, i work it, and i own it. In canada, it became more about land than it did about labour: settler" vs. franchise.
