CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Omphaloskepsis, Terra Nullius

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 262
• Professor: Ayaka Yoshimizu

Document Summary

Colonialism: colonialism: an expression of domination and hegemony primarily in the form of political rule and economic control, colonization of culture (knowledge, language & mind) Colonialism & research: power-knowledge, the west = the subject who produces/accumulates/disseminate knowledge, the indigenous peoples = the object of knowledge, research (cid:862)through imperial eyes(cid:863, western knowledge: (cid:862)universal(cid:863) knowledge. A chronology of aboriginal research by karen martin (cited in wilson"s reading) Terra nullius (1770-1900) ---------------------------- observation of the land, flora and fauna. Traditionalizing (1900-1940) ------------------------ psychological, clinical & physical anthropological investigations. Assimilationist (1940-1970) ------------------------- cultural & social anthropological studies. Early aboriginal research (1970-1990s) ---------- human rights research through western perspectives. Recent aboriginal research (1990-2000) -------- qualitative research by indigenous researchers. Indigenous paradigm: research by indigenous scholars, decolonization of research (late 1990s-, a shift in terminology. Indigenous way of knowing = relationality: conducting research with a (cid:862)good heart(cid:863, wilson"s reading, research is ceremony.