GEOG 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Clayoquot Sound, Settler Colonialism
29 Mar 2017
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Take home more writing than quizzes, takes more thinking, will ask question to compare and think across diff regions of course (will be explicit questions tho) Will post something on courselink to talk about final. Settler societies result from settler colonialism (diff from extractive colonialism) and the term recognizes. A colonial legacy that impacts political, social and economic life. Dominant discourses/myths serve to rationalize the past and present dispossession of aboriginal people. It isn"t a past condition, but a present one and it isn"t an aboriginal problem" but a canadian one (how it impacts envi gov) Today is an illustration of what that means, and why we need to be attentive to the multiple ways our lives continue to be shaped by a colonial legacy (what article is trying to get us to do) Idea of settler society and kinds of challenges that are specific to the kind of society that has become to be.
