HI131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lenape, Idle No More, Distant Early Warning Line
Document Summary
Idle no more: unsettled settled "self-evident" narratives of canada, not just negotiate dominant cultural meaning and stories, but also opposes them, contests and opposes hegemonic representations and realities. Semiotics: theory and study of signs (meaning + discourse) Imaginary + ideological: material + physical, embodied + secured. Lines of latitude and longitude are a basic example of a concept needed to make space manageable and physical: geographic system to make the world manageable, certain biases for representing space, mercader projection. Sizing difference on maps to create a more prominent distinction between big countries and smaller countries: cartography depends on cultural relations to fully divide places and define space. "socially constructed site or location marked by an identification of emotional investment. Bounded manifestations of the production of meaning in space: space that means something to us, how designs create different articulations for us, environment. "in the broadest sense, indexes contested terrains located at the intersections between social, political, economic: territorialization, deterritorialization.
