AHL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Terra Nullius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Interdisciplinary Study in Arts
• Course: AHL 1100
• Professor: Eric Allina, Meredith Terretta, Jan Grabowski

Document Summary

12 oct. commemorates the day columbus landed in the caribbean. Systematic mapping of earth"s surface with people looking for exploitable resources. Looking for markets to trade these goods and eventually for colonies. Think about colonialism and its different forms, and how stories about it are narrated. These three issues are a root cause of rightlessness: some humans take rights from others. Euro colonialism on global skill was underwritten by laws with racial hierarchies and euro cultural superiority. The spirit of colonialism has outlived the era of colonialism, though colonies independent residue still exists. Between 1500 and 1920 most places and peoples were under euro control. Colonisation is a process of territorial acquisition by conquest, treaty, or trade. Colony is a type of socio political organization, administration in place for terririal colony. When system of domination in place rights for some diminish. Basis for 3: notion of expansion of a society beyond its original habitat.