GSFS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Critical Consciousness, International Society For Justice Research, Frantz Fanon

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 300
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Linda tuhiwai smith: university of waikato, new zealand, approach builds on . Main themes: research is implicated imperialism, power relations eff. what we think is natural and real" about ourselves and others", research fatigue", questions authoritativeness of the research. Tactics of imperialism: military conquest, destruction and undervaluing of indigenous culture, targeting of children through colonial education, random, ad hoc manner gathering of research about the other" by outsiders. Research under imperial eyes: assumes western ideas about fundamental things like time, space and what it mmeans to be humans are. The only way to make sense of the world, reality, social life and human beings. Decolonization is not a metaphor. : it is not. Converting indigenous politics to a western doctrine of liberation. A philanthropic process of helping" the at-risk and alleviating suffering. A generic term for struggle v. oppressive conditions and outcomes.