JGI216H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Terra Nullius, Douglas Treaties, Aboriginal Title
11 May 2018
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Professor David Roberts Jan. 19, 2017
JGI216 LECTURE 3
GLOBALIZATION
LECTURE OUTLINE:
1) Post-Colonial
2) The Colonial Present
3) Dispossession and Land Claims
4) Property and the Legacies of Terra Nullius
POST-COLONIALISM
- A critical politico-intellectual formation that is centrally concerned with the impact of
colonialism and its contestation on the cultures of both colonizing and colonized peoples
in the past, and the reproduction and transformation of colonial relations, representation,
and practices in the present
KEY TENETS OF POST-COLINIAL STUDIES
- Involve a close and critical read of colonial discourse
- Grasp the complicated and fractured histories through which colonialism passes from the
past into the present
- Map the ways in which metropolitan and colonial societies are drawn together in webs of
affinity and dependence
- Be a history of the present that is sensitive to the political implications of its
constructions
THE “POST” IN POST-COLONIAL
- Postcolonial scholarship reflects a multiplicity of experiences, cultures, contexts, and
social positions
- “Post-Colonial” can be a temporal reference societies after a colonial relationship are
severed after political independence
- another interpretation would be “post” as in beyond transcending and transgressing the
norms entrenched in colonial relations between the colonizer and the colonized
THE COLONIAL PRESENT
- Argues that while formal colonial relationships have ended (in most places in the world),
power dynamics, practices, and other relationships forged under colonialism continue to
exist
- In other words, for some, colonialism never fully ended
ON-GOING CONTESTATION OF COLONIAL LEGACIES
- ugh Canada's national identity is presently constructed and articulated through the
rhetoric of multiculturalism and (post)colonialism, Aboriginal peoples are still contesting
and negotiating the complex legacies of colonialism (including land and resource rights)
Ex. Germany changing all street names to Zulu names
DYNAMICS OF VANCOUVER AS A POST-COLONIAL CITY
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Document Summary
Lecture outline: post-colonial, the colonial present, dispossession and land claims, property and the legacies of terra nullius. Involve a close and critical read of colonial discourse. Grasp the complicated and fractured histories through which colonialism passes from the past into the present. Map the ways in which metropolitan and colonial societies are drawn together in webs of affinity and dependence. Be a history of the present that is sensitive to the political implications of its constructions. Postcolonial scholarship reflects a multiplicity of experiences, cultures, contexts, and social positions. Argues that while formal colonial relationships have ended (in most places in the world), power dynamics, practices, and other relationships forged under colonialism continue to exist. In other words, for some, colonialism never fully ended. Ugh canada"s national identity is presently constructed and articulated through the rhetoric of multiculturalism and (post)colonialism, aboriginal peoples are still contesting and negotiating the complex legacies of colonialism (including land and resource rights)
