SOCI 3430 Lecture : Soci3430.pdf
5 Apr 2014
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Soci 3430 exam review notes: conceptualizing settler colonialism/imperialism. With a focus on aboriginal non-aboriginal relations in the canadian context. Tuhiwai-smith: resistance to the idea that the post-" in postcolonial would indicate the end of actual colonialism (cluster 1) Maps figure centrally in how we get socialized into geopolitical constructs (while we live and experience place differently, maps construct an objectified space) Maps & mapping play a pivotal role for the national belonging (perceiving ourselves as part of a territorially bounded community of the nation) Maps & mapping depend on a technology of production (this process is often linked to exercises the authority to produce and use such maps) Maps shape the political terrain inasmuch as they claim to represent it. However: maps & mapping can also be contested on various levels. It is a body of texts that contest the ways the west" has written the history of modernity and civilization.
