The Conquest of Land and Dream (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards
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Epistemic violence
Epistemic violence
Destruction of knowledge systems
Terra nullius doctrine
Terra nullius doctrine
Empty land
Surveyor's stake symbolises
Surveyor's stake symbolises
Epistemic rape; violent fracturing of Indigenous sovereignty
Cartographic lines symbolise
Cartographic lines symbolise
Erasure of songlines; linguistic genocide
Songlines definition
Songlines definition
Indigenous pathways connecting land, culture, and spirituality
Buried bones symbolise
Buried bones symbolise
National amnesia; suppressed historical memory
'Seasons upside down' represents
'Seasons upside down' represents
Country's rejection of colonial exploitation
Numbers/measurement symbolises
Numbers/measurement symbolises
Commodification; reductionism into commercial value
National amnesia refers to
National amnesia refers to
Deliberate forgetting of frontier violence and massacres
Three imagery clusters
Three imagery clusters
Ecological resistance, linguistic burial, psychological alienation