GGR327H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Settler Colonialism, Temagami, Clearcutting
11 Feb 2016
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Cultural discourse on the nature of the body make dominant gender discourses. Recall butler: gendered discourse produces the truth of sex as natural seem inevitable. There"s no experience of nature outside of culture and politics all spaces are produced and organized under specific social and political conditions. In different contexts, the binary nature/culture is assigned different gendered meanings (because nature and culture have so many meanings) Western history: culture seen as a male domain. Contemporary neoliberal society arts and culture marginalized as a feminized, trivial, not central to real economy . Long history of literary tropes nature as monstrous, mysterious, feminine, exotic, indomitable. Postcolonial nation-states: women as bearers of culture in reproducing national values. Nations are imagined communities it takes discourse to make them cohere, to get buy-in from citizens, etc. (erickson 12) Canoe was taken from an arawak word, brought into european languages by.
