GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Settler Colonialism
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Imperialism: unequal human and territorial relationship, involving the extension of authority and control of one state or people over another. Colonialism: the dominance and/or dispossession of an indigenous (or enslaved) peoples by an invading power which controls politically, militarily, economically (accumulation of capital), and ideologically. Examining colonialism through control and ownership of labor and land. : african people as valuable property due to their labor, indigenous lands as valuable property for resources and settlement. For europeans, more about land rather than labor. Indigenous people were somewhat disposable since british were bringing laborers. Indian - british: british sat on india, the objective was not about getting the land but more into resources (non-pernmanence) Colonialism canada end of 19th century: british are going to settle. Settler colonialism: employing a logic of elimination , a large number of settlers claim land and become the majority. Attempt to engineer the erasure of the original inhabitants everywhere except in nostalgia.
