SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wild Beasts, International Association Of Athletics Federations, Fig Leaf
17 Oct 2016
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Provided a context of colonial violence in canada. The role of the media and other institutions in the reproduction of colonial violence. Went over some of the mechanisms with respect to how colonial violence was institutionalized. Relationship of colonialism in canada to multiculturalism. Think about the construction of the other, scientific study and hence the nation. How do we see them playing out today? (gender, sexuality) Between 1814-1870 at least seven scientific descriptions some important questions of the bodies of women of colour were completed in classical comparative anatomy. Why did the anatomical description of women if colour seem to be of such importance to biologists of the 19th century (how was gender, race, sustained. ) The colonial expansions of the 18th and 19th centuries shaped european science. Cuvier"s dissection of bartmann was a natural extension of that shaping. Reveals the insecurity and angst about race and gender experiences by researchers and european culture at large.
