INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eviction, Scientific Racism, Aboriginal Title
26 Apr 2016
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Power to dispossess (the removal of indigenous peoples from their lands): violence- page 168: as you move into the mid 1800s, colonial powers have had encounters with indigenous peoples for centuries now. They attacked small communities or individuals as threats. Commit to destroying villages and anchored warships and aiming cannons at different villages. The colonists made the definitions of legitimate and ill-legitimate violence. So when then indigenous peoples are fighting back their land, they are seen as violent. Our construction of bc is based on falsehoods on how bc came to exist. The british empire wheeled in its power that dispossessed indigenous peoples. Imperial state: way in which the state transforms itself and undergoes the transition from a secular religion society to a liberal humanitarian one. 2: culture: civilization, savagery, dehumanization and racism. In the context of bc, it worked in 2 ways: overt biological racism- being inferior.
