GEOG 2075 Lecture Notes - Masculinity, Bricolage, Symbiosis
5 Dec 2013
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September 30 & oct 1 - control and resistance. Sherene razack when place becomes race. in razack, s (ed). Unmapping a white settler society, pp 1-20. (2002) toronto: between the lines. (moodle) Such spaces re organized to sustain unequal social relations and how these relations shape spaces. A white settler society is one established by europeans on non european soil. Its origins lie in the dispossession and near extermination of indigenous populations by the conquering europeans. White settler society continues to be structured by a racial hierarchy. White people were first to develop land and aboriginal people are presumed to be dead or assimilated. European thus the original inhabitants and group most entitled to the fruits of citizenship. Na was assumed to be peacefully settled and not colonized. Mythologies or national stories are about a nations origins and enable citizens to think of themselves as part of a community (who belongs and who doesnt)
