HIUS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chamorro People, Frontier Thesis, Centrality
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Hius 103 lecture 2 knowledge systems of oceania. Narrative of discovery: tu(cid:396)(cid:374)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s f(cid:396)o(cid:374)tie(cid:396) thesis, centering white men in history, frontier is closed. Ignores how non-europeans generated understandings of the world and their relationship to it. Racism, colonialism, imperialism: central themes in long history of western engagements with pacific world. Imperialism: expansion of nations outside their territorial boundaries. Colonialism: variation of imperialism, how imperialism is exercised in dominated nation/territory, process of economic extraction and political governance over subjects, extractive colonialism: empire for commercial and economic purposes. Settler colonialism: colony acquired for the purposes of settlement: exploit natural resources, take labor from colony and bring them to imperial center, may not have a settler component, depriving people of national sovereignty/nationhood. Imperialism broad concept, colonialism as a practice that usually has a clear start and end date: colonialism a form of imperialism, but imperialism does not necessarily take a colonial form.
