SOC 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Deserted Village, Mary Louise Pratt, Monarchy Of The United Kingdom
19 Jan 2017
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Imagining community narratives of settlement & white civility. Key concepts: anti-conquest (mary louise pratt, imagined community (benedict anderson, four stage theory of civilization, civility (daniel coleman, racial naturalism vs. rachial historicism. Pratt, the figure of the seeing-man , whose imperial eyes (gaze) passively look out and possess (7) Sees himself as if taking on the role of a knight in shining armour . Explorer narratives are infused with the ideology of colonization and illuminate the ways in which capitalism is central to colonialism. Ideology of colonization is based on the doctrine of cultural hierarchy and supremacy: colonialism is the establishment and control of a territory by a sovereign power. Another technique used to subdue the native population is stripping, crushing, and emptying the values of. Native culture: the primary objective of colonization is the enslavement of both native people and their land.
