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Indigenous Response To Colonialism
Indigenous response to colonialism refers to the actions, strategies, and efforts taken by Indigenous peoples to evade, oppose, challenge, and survive the impacts of colonial domination, Dispossession of land, dispossession, and assimilation. It has varied depending on the Indigenous group, historical period, territory, and colonial state(s) they have interacted with. Indigenous peoples have had Agency (philosophy), agency in their response to colonialism. They have employed armed resistance, diplomacy, and legal procedures. Others have fled to inhospitable, undesirable or remote territories to avoid conflict. Nevertheless, some Indigenous peoples were forced to move to Indian reservation, reservations or reductions, and Forced labour, work in mines, plantations, construction, and domestic tasks. They have Detribalization, detribalized and Cultural assimilation, culturally assimilated into colonial societies. On occasion, Indigenous peoples have formed alliances with one or more Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dispossession Of Land
Accumulation by dispossession is a concept presented by the Marxist geography, Marxist geographer David Harvey. It defines neoliberal capitalist policies that result in a Wealth concentration, centralization of wealth and power in the hands of a few by dispossessing the public and private entities of their wealth or land. Such policies are visible in many western nations from the 1970s and to the present day. Harvey argues these policies are guided mainly by four practices: privatization, financialization, management and manipulation of crises, and state redistributions. Practices Privatization Privatization and commodification of public assets have been among the most criticized and disputed aspects of neoliberalism. Summed up, they could be characterized by the process of transferring property from public ownership to private ownership. According to Marxist theory, this serves the interests of the Bourgeoisie, capitalist class, or bourgeoisie, as it moves power from the nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
