A CONCEPT MAP ON DUALISM, AKI, AND PROPERTY

This short assignment asks you to use a “concept map” to begin to make some meaningful connections among concepts we have been studying. A concept map is a technique for visually representing connections among ideas. This technique can be used to understand concepts within a given article or book, and they can be used to represent connections between and among the concepts introduced by different authors in different pieces of writing. Concept maps show concepts and ideas and the relationships among them. You create a concept map by writing key words, enclosed in shapes such as circles, boxes, triangles, etc., and then drawing arrows and lines between the ideas that are related. Then you add short explanations by the arrows/lines to explain how the concepts are related. Here is an example that comes from a potentially useful website: https://lsc(dot)cornell(dot)edu/how-to-study/concept-maps/ Links to an external site. Concept maps are, and should be, personal to you, their creator. They should represent and support your reading of the materials within the context of the course and your thinking about how concepts relate to, and inform, each other. Importantly, although your map must be yours and should represent your thinking, you are not doing this alone. You are creating your own work, but within a community that has the same assignment and that is part of the same community of learners. Also, you can ask for help. For this concept map assignment, I would like you to draw a concept map that begins to identify definitions and connections among important concepts that we are now studying: Dualism, Aki, property Your work with these concepts needs to be informed by these readings: “Decolonizing Relationships with Nature” by Val Plumwood, “Land as Pedagogy” by Leanne B. Simpson, and optionally, “Whiteness as Property” by Cheryl Harris. Steps to completing this assignment: DEFINITIONS: Start with definitions of the required concepts.This will help you to become more clear about what these terms mean for the authors we have been reading. This clarity will help you to begin to see connections. Define dualism: Find a passage in Val Plumwood’s “Decolonizing Relationships with Nature” that explains the term, quote the passage (include a page number!) and then explain the passage to provide a definition. Define Aki: Find a passage in Leanne Simpson’s “Land as Pedagogy” that explains the term, quote the passage (include a page number!), and provide a definition. Define property: You can approach this definition in a few ways: Explain this definition. What is Purdy saying here and what is its relevance in light of our studies of settler colonialism? Supplement this definition with any other sources you would like. For example, If you do this, cite every single source that informs your thinking. Anything Cheryl Harris says about property in “Whiteness as Property.” If you draw on Harris’s work, please quote directly from the text and provide a page number. Then explain the quote and its relevance. Other pieces we have read have engaged with this concept; e.g., E.N. Glenn and Plumwood. Any research you do online or anywhere else. Fee free to look up “property.” Use this definition, provided in class: “Classical liberal property is marked by a set of powers in the owner that are good against all the world: exclusion of others except by consent, transfer of the property by sale or other means, and control over the use made of it” (Purdy, J. (2020. The meaning of property (p. 16). Yale University Press.) CREATE THE MAP: On paper, using google drawings, Padlet, or any other kind of drawing technology. Place each of the terms — dualism, aki, property — into shapes. If I were creating this concept map, I would use a different shape for each. Start to draw arrows/lines and such to represent the relationships as you understand them. Add language to explain the lines, arrows, and such. Additional concepts from Plumwood such as radical exclusion/hyperseparation, denial/backgrounding, centrism, monologue and dialogue, etc. Additional concepts from Simpson could include: consent/intelligence as consensual engagement, NIshnaagbeg intelligence, practice, resurgence, etc. Consider the ways these concepts relate to each other. They might rely on each other for meaning, they might counter each other, they might need additional concepts brought in, in order for relations to. make sense Add sub-concepts as necessary. For example: Additional concepts from the course that might be helpful: race, gender, nature/wilderness, “it matters what stories tell stories,” settler colonialism, settler colonialism as structure, objective knowledge, even specific people whose lives we've read about -- e.g., Harriet Tubman, etc. The minimum number of concepts is three and you must somehow represent connections among them. There is no maximum to the number of concepts, lines, arrows, and general connectionism you can make with this map. However, you will want to be able to articulate what you are thinking and what you are learning through this exercise so you will want to keep it to a number that you can put into words. ARTICULATE WHAT YOUR MAP REPRESENTS Now that you have produced a map that draws connections among the concepts in the course materials, explain what the map represents in about a paragraph or two, double spaced. There are ways of drawing these connections that are compelling, but there genuinely is no single correct way to do this. We are interested in how you are thinking! Citation: Please do include in-text citations whenever you draws on ideas that come from the readings. Include a "works cited" or "references" list at the end. Purdue Online Writing Lab is a good source for instructions on citation: owl.purdue.edu UPLOAD TO BCOURSES BY NOVEMBER 24 @11:59 PM. Late Policy: If you submit your assignment within 24 hours of the deadline (by 11:59 on November 25), there will be no penalty. After that, there will be a .25 point deduction for the first day and .5 point per day thereafter. If you draw your concept map on paper, take a photo of it in order to be able to upload it. If you can get all parts of the assignment onto one pdf and upload the whole thing, that is the best way to submit this assignment.