POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civilizing Mission, Miscegenation, Statism
16 Dec 2017
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To challenge western views on: the construction of the third world, modernization theories" isolationist thesis , the writing of colonial history, and the re-writing, the construction of the other" as primitive ( dark continent") by the church, science and. Culture: the need to pay compensation to formerly colonized peoples, the need to properly address the unresolved land issue". Colonialism prepared subjects for democracy and democratic government. Colonialism organized colonial economies in a more e cient manner. French civilizing mission": cultural assimilation v. association: cultural suicide. Portuguese civilizing mission": ancestry and culture: miscegenation (one-way process); assimilados; social strati cation. Introduction of cash crops, one-crop, monocultural economies. Introduction of foreign labour (south asian workers) Prohibition of intra-trade and communication among colonies. Colonialism re ected a lack of economic freedom, a di erent mode of development", and a di erent mode of integration into the world capitalist system.
