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| CONSTRUCTING THE PANOPTICON: Perceptions of Wilderness, Methods of Domination, and the Colonization of Native America By Jeffrey D. Hendricks This study investigates the intersection between establishment and counter-cultural perceptions of nature and power and discusses their relationship to the spread of Anglo civilization across North America. The historical context of this study will be the colonization of Native America from the first landing of the European invaders on the North Atlantic Coast through to the early 20th century. Within that context, methods of domination and perceptions of wilderness will be studied to reveal the obsession with control exhibited by those in positions of power, as well as the resistance to that control and way of thinking waged by counter-cultural forces. This study will argue that the domestication of wilderness and the domination of people are intrinsically connected. |
This study will overlap into a number of established schools of historical study including Environmental History, New Western and Post Western History, and Native American Studies. Overall, the focus of this study will be on perceptions and ideologies – the history of ideas. Philosophically and theoretically speaking, this study will be guided by an epistemological anarchism that will aid in the creation of an anti-colonial and anti-hierarchical history of perceptions of nature and ideologies of control as they played out during the colonization of North America. Click here to download this thesis in Adobe Reader Format.... |
