SOC 475 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Settler Colonialism, Internalized Racism, Cultural Genocide
12 Oct 2018
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Modernity is a period where culture and the way of thinking was changed, producing knowledge, constructing knowledge. Rise in science, idea that we are all equal. Rigidly fixed hierarcthies which were sustained by violence (premodern europe) Property, like knowledge is a relation between people for the purpose of something, not a relation between an individual and something. During the time where europe colonial domination was consolidating itself, modernity/rationality was being constituted (from lecture slide) (aka when europe was out colonizing places, at the same time the modernity era was happening) How do you preach equality and human rights, and then and colonize people contradiction. Repression of other knowledges within colonialism, such as systems of indigenous peoples. Colonial encounter, settler colonialism non encounter recurring need to not support indigenous peoples, persistent drive to ultimately supersede (take place of) the conditions of its operations, successful settler colonies. Tame wilderness, establish independent nations, repress, extinguish independent nations, repress, productively manage ethnic diversity etc.
