Lecture 14 Decolonizing HR

Colonialism

the expansion of territorial dominance by one power over another people and their lands

Coloniality

structures of racism patriarchy, and class, linked to capitalism and western modernity that outlast a formal empire; maldonado torres and migolonial being and knowing final empires

Settler colonialism

a system oppression based on genocide and colonialism that aims to displace a population, often indigenous and replace it with a new settler population

Apartheid south africa

a form of institutionalized segregation, white minoirty enforced rules and regulations in south africa

Decolonization

a counter power to the expansion of terrotorial dominancne

decoloniality

a process of delinking from western imperialism after colonization, naming ways of knowing that precede or coincide with colonization; seeks to undo structural racism, patriarchy, and class tied to capitalism and western modernity through struggles from the margins

eurocentric human

centers on the individual, white european human and man is regarded as the main idea for what constitues the human

Savage, victim, savior

mutuas metaphor, rights story causes the south as a savage or victims as saviors

Racial capitalism

human rights protects private property rights, racialized extraction, disposessions

Kapur

life after critque, human rights rest on a liberal and western subject, if the foundation falls, do we lose basis for justice; turn human rights into a non liberal idea of freedom and happiness

Truck and Yang

settler colonialism is about land and life, decolonization is a synonym for social justice draining the meaning;

Truck and Yang settler, native, slave

settlers are not immigrants, settlers are the lawl nospatial seperation, colony sits in one place

land and life

Decolonization means the repatration of indigenous land

Abandon, transform, reclaim

human rights are bound up, cant serve liberation → keep the vocabulary to build foundations and define humanity → decolonial struggle can take these rights back

International NGOs

exercise power over global south groups through everyday advocacy, practice, demonstrating resistance, allyship, and forms of domination building power through listening, exchanging, and privilege

INGO domination

political economy, power to be heard, white saviors, superstars, urgency + security

Human rights vs decoloniality

starting point, justice, knowledge, remedy, pace, location

Extraction (INGO)

mining expertise, networks from south groups, hoarding, knowledge, etc.

Condensation (INGO)

compress highly fragmented ideas into digestable ideas and campaigns to propose

Control (INGO)

operates independently of government control, but governments are able to influence and regulate states

Recuperation (INGO)

engage in recovery efforts to help disaster and affected communities from emergency situations back to stability while managing communities