INTD 1102 Lecture 4: Decolonization as a Scholarly Method
23 Feb 2016
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Introduction to decolonization as a mode of scholarly methods. Identify and appreciate the human and natural history of the jipugtug prior to first. Ballad concentrated on going straight fro point a to point b, no recall as to how they got there. Counter-memory: a memory that pushes against the dominant representation of history. A critical approach creates a counter memory, for example that cornwallis was not a great, he was a racist who encouraged genocide as written on sign. An uncritical approach can result in the loss of collective memory. Names on buildings tend to be there for a reason but we can not always just assume that it is the whole story that they are telling. A process that affects everyone, although it does not affect us all in the same way. This is known as the culture bomb of colonization". From a scholarly position, the goal is to much against the process of decolonization.
