Domination Chronicles 008: Words & Meanings.

Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery

Listen to Episode 8: Words & Meanings on Domination Chronicles.

This episode examines how everyday words hide deeper systems of domination and shape understandings of power.

Words do political work. In this conversation, Peter and I look at how ordinary vocabulary can hide domination, and why recovering free existence requires a disciplined attention to meaning.

I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.

Listen to the full episode at Domination Chronicles.