Hard Truths of the West

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This factsheet challenges common-sense ideas of 'the West'. The factsheet explains that it is important to see the power of so-called Western countries as dependent on the explotation of land, resources and labour.

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References

Hall, S. (2018). "The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power". In Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002710
Tuhiwai Smith, P. L. (2012). "Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory." In Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1426837

Source Authors

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Stuart Hall

Keywords

Capitalism, Challenge Assumptions, Climate Crisis, Colonial Exploitation, Colonialism, Deconstructing Popular Ideas, imperialism, Knowledge and Power, Land and Power, Land Dispossession, Myths and Power, Representations and Power, Resource Exploitation, Settler Colonialism, Settler Fantasy, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Social Ideas and Power, The 'West', Unlearning and Relearning

Locations

Canada, Turtle Island, United States

Themes

Theory