DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Idle No More, Sixties Scoop, Employment Discrimination

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: Karen Dubinsky

Document Summary

Lecture 1 + 2 - internal colonization: aboriginal policy in canada. A new campaign is underway to push the un to label canada"s treatment of first. Canada has what some people called third world conditions at home, and an. Imperial reach in terms of resource exploitation abroad. No one category for canada, it is not only good or bad - can"t simplify. A system in which a state claims sovereignty over territory and people outside it"s own boundaries often to facilitate economic domination over their resources, labour and often, markets. There has been a drive to limit pluralism (with regards to indigenous) and to integrate us all into a single global universalized capitalist system. Factors leading to colonial relationships: civilization vs barbarism, culture vs tradition, evolution, progress, advancement, development. Founded on the principle that peoples should be kept separate and unequal until the inferior group becomes civilized. Coercive tutelage : people coerced into leaving behind their aboriginal culture.