ANTHR-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Indirect Rule, Settler Colonialism, Holodomor
22 Dec 2020
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Colonialism long -term political and economic domination of a territory by a foreign power. Imperialism expanding an empire through the seizure of foreign land. Colonialism is a process, imperialism is a project. Cheap labour in the form of slavery. Prestige: the more territory claimed, the stronger or more powerful the nation is. Proselytizing: spreading a religion for personal salvation or to fulfil divine command. forms of colonialism. Indirect rule: governing through native political structures and leaders. Direct rule imposing new government led by members of the colonizing nation. Settler colonialism colonizing nations sends large numbers of settlers, often displacing/killing existing native populations. Imperialism is justified by the dehuminization of the people being conquered/displaced/killed. Framing them as subhuman or beastly , therefore their lives are not as valuable as european lives. Imperialism often involves or results in genocide, the deliberate killing of members of an ethnic group. Genocide can be done directly, through murder (e. g. the holocaust)
