POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Nationstates, White Privilege, Realpolitik
Lecture 9: The Urban and/as 21st Century Politics
●Previously
○Metropole, Neo--, and Settler Colonialism
■A system, not an event
■Metropole: usually what we tend to think of, one state conquering the territory of
another, using that location for the extraction of resources, the wealth of the
colony is extracted and sent to the Metropole, sole purpose is to enrich the
capital, most “obvious” historical example of where one nation subjugates
another
●Ex: Spain and the Americas in the pacific in the 19th century
■Neo-colonialism: phenomenon that occurs after formal colonization, after you
have troops and administrators from spain or england and running affairs in
colombia or nigeria, no longer have official authority in place running the colony
in favor of the Metropole
■Settler colonialism: project that seems to replace one population with another,
european settlers came to Canadian landmass, displaced indigenous people of
this are, occupied their territory, moved them to reserves, subject them to
genocide, etc. intended to create their own culture, identity, ties and claims of
legitimate, not an event, it’s a system with structures, logics, and its own
knowledge, reproduces itself from the repossession of indigenous peoples
○Decolonization as real (political, social, economic, cultural) movements to
■Redress past injustices
●Anti-indigenous racism, personal and systematic
●Territorial dispossession
●Cultural genocide
■Develop new, more inclusive and sustainable, paths forward
●Not only about writing historical wrongs, but about building more
inclusive, more sustainable, more just futures
○Based in
■Autonomy and solidarity
●Requires its participants to practice solidarity and mutuality
■Tradition and collective futures
●Movement based by the dispossess and by the people on the losing end
of the settler colonialism, shift from political culture that comes from
below
■Lead by indigenous peoples
●Glen Sean Coulthard: Against the Politics of Recognition
○Settler colonialism as daily repetition of “So-Called” primitive Accumulation (Karl Marx,
via Adam Smith)
■Primitive accumulation (Adam Smith):
■Primitive accumulation: (Karl Marx) Corrects Adam Smith and views primitive
accumulation a result of violent conquest and dispossession, the way in which
factory owners amass enough wealth to build factory is the repossession of land,
stripping people from the land and turning them into creatures with no mean to
produce their own lives. Also the conquest of the americas, the subjugation of the
Aztec and Inca empires, the taking over of mines, etc.
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Document Summary
Lecture 9: the urban and/as 21st century politics. Ex: spain and the americas in the pacific in the 19th century. Decolonization as real (political, social, economic, cultural) movements to. Develop new, more inclusive and sustainable, paths forward. Not only about writing historical wrongs, but about building more inclusive, more sustainable, more just futures. Requires its participants to practice solidarity and mutuality. Movement based by the dispossess and by the people on the losing end of the settler colonialism, shift from political culture that comes from below. Glen sean coulthard: against the politics of recognition. Settler colonialism as daily repetition of so-called primitive accumulation (karl marx, via adam smith) Also the conquest of the americas, the subjugation of the. Aztec and inca empires, the taking over of mines, etc. Coulthard corrects karl marx and say accumulation is not primitive, it"s ongoing, it"s a constant daily event hardwired into the system.
