ACMA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnocide, Terra Nullius, Postcolonialism
9 Feb 2016
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Problematization complicating or critiquing common sense (things we don"t question on a daily basis) Allows new or suppressed perspectives to emerge. A critical thinking process: assuming that the opposite is correct for critical reflection. History: a tricky category study of past events in particular of human affairs (mediation) History always comes to us through others or other media. History comes from dominant perspective within that society. Aim to be as objective as possible critically examine source materials create narratives that can be peer reviewed and can confirm that it is accurate and relevant. *selection of info is important because not everything is important or relevant. ** history is a set of lies agreed upon by the victors . An objectivity context can shape how history is told and whose history s depicted. History and the victors they are not the only people to emerge from conflict history. People who already have inhabited land but do not emerge in.
