GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Capital Accumulation, Double-Entry Bookkeeping System, Eurocentrism
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Writing assignment: prompt on legal geographies, can bring your notes. The legal co-creates socio-spatial relations, while socio-spatial relations also co-create law. The doctrine of discovery was elaborated to facilitate portuguese & spanish exploration and colonization. And to justify appropriation of land and dispossession of indigenous peoples. The doctrine of discovery is the foundation of settler societies like canada. Eurocentric narratives about capitalism: europe is the architect of new forms of rationality and innovations in science & technology, which enabled the industrial revolution and the rise of europe . Sanitized version of capitalism erases the violence of european imperialism and appropriation of other people"s lands and bodies. Our argument: imperialism became the european way of life to create new mechanisms for investment and accumulation. After the reconquest of the iberian peninsula, portugal & spain sought to undercut the power of the muslim world by gaining control of trade routes. Spanish saw the fight as muslims vs christians.
