SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Settler Colonialism, Canadian Identity, Cultural Hegemony
2 Apr 2016
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The faciious poliics of a setler society: canada. 1992, canada took major poliical iniiaive of consituional reform. Negoiaions prompted by fact that even though canada severed last colonial ies with britain, new deal failed to redistribute power from federal to provincial governments to saisfacion of. Accord rejected by 54% of electorate: process which spawned it was remarkable in that the irst ime in canadian history, naional aboriginal and women"s organizaions played signiicant roles in negoiaing and defeaing consituional proposals respecively. Chapter explores implicaions of canada"s development from 17th to early 20th centuries as setler society for efects on encounters among diferent peoples, and on relaive roles and autonomy of aboriginal, immigrant/minority and ethnically dominant women. Canadian poliical economy tradiion absorbed noion of canada"s roots as white setler society": white setler society construct refers to intenions of colonial administrators to build.
