HUMR 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Catholic Church, Settler Colonialism, Neocolonialism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Human Rights
• Course: HUMR 3301
• Professor: Paul Mkandawire

Document Summary

European exploration racism: 15th century europe had limited direct knowledge of the rest of the world. Post-colonialism: eurocentrism seeing world from pov of europe. Colonialism: political domination of one country over another military and economic control, direct control: settler colonialism and massive immigration. Indirect control: set up colonial governments friendly to europe: both forms introduced political and economic institutions modeled after europe. Law: colonialism did more than exploit the colonized, restructured the economy of the colonized and inserted them into a complex relationship of their own, two forms of unequal relationships. Between colony and colonized peoples: meaning of postcolonial, p(cid:396)efi(cid:454) (cid:862)post(cid:863) falsel(cid:455) suggests afte(cid:396)(cid:373)ath i(cid:374) t(cid:449)o se(cid:374)ses. Temporal: that the era of colonialism is over because all formerly colonized countries gained political independence. Colonialism and imperialism are terms used interchangeably. Definition of colonialism does not take into the account the colonized peoples, just the colonizers.