Property, human ecology and Delgamuukw

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorCheney, Thomas
dc.contributor.supervisorLawson, James Charles Barkley
dc.contributor.supervisorTully, James
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-22T23:13:33Z
dc.date.available2011-07-22T23:13:33Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-07-22
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis has two central goals. The first is to theorize the confrontation of Indigenous societies and European settler society as, among other things, a conflict between two opposing conceptions of the human relationship with nature — human ecology. The Western/settler view is that nature is external to humans and instrumental to their development. John Locke’s philosophy provides an excellent example of this type of thinking. In contrast, the world-view of many Indigenous societies is characterized by a sense of ontological continuity between humans and the ecology. The second aim of this thesis is to contribute to ecological political theory by exploring the contrast between these two divergent views of human ecology. It is suggested that this contrast provides a theoretically fertile site for an ecological politics suitable for a post-modern, post-capitalist future. These theoretical observations are grounded in a concrete case study: the Delgamuukw legal episode.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3420
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectdelgamuukwen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental studiesen_US
dc.subjectJohn Lockeen_US
dc.subjectphilosophyen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous politicsen_US
dc.subjectGitxsanen_US
dc.subjectWetsuwet'enen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous philosophyen_US
dc.subjectproperty rightsen_US
dc.subjectcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectdispossessionen_US
dc.subjectpolitical theoryen_US
dc.subjectecological political theoryen_US
dc.subjectimprovementen_US
dc.subjectAboriginal rightsen_US
dc.subjectnatureen_US
dc.subjectland-useen_US
dc.subjectmodernityen_US
dc.subjectnon-modernen_US
dc.subjectcapitalismen_US
dc.subjectstateen_US
dc.subjectsubject-objecten_US
dc.titleProperty, human ecology and Delgamuukwen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Cheney_Thomas_MA_2011.pdf
Size:
599.85 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.74 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
 
University of Victoria Libraries

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.