LAWS 2908 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Humanitarian Law, Canadian Indian Residential School System, White Supremacy
9 Dec 2017
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I got you all to read the article to give you a sense of how views defending the colonial legacy of western nations continue to date in academia. It is important to recognize that academic arguments expressing such views should not be shut down but should feature as a part of the dialogue that we would like to undertake. It is often construed by scholars who defend colonial conquests that such invasions brought democracy and rule of law to the otherwise uncivilized nations of the global south / third world. However, it is important to note that law in these domains was used as a form of violence by colonists colonial. This took many forms including pulverization of identities, massive religious conversion, and in canada"s case the institutionalization of the residential school system. Focusing on the case of india, there were a myriad ways of imperial policing, punishment, and control.
