Quote: "Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas."
The impact of colonialism on indigenous and colonized peoples, and the process of decolonization.
Imperialism: The practice of one country extending its power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or economic domination over another country or region.
Colonialism: The process of settling and controlling a foreign territory or country by an external power for economic, political, or strategic gains.
Slavery: The exploitation of human beings as a commodity for economic gain. The transatlantic slave trade refers to the mass transportation of African people from West and Central Africa to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Indentured labor: The system of labor where individuals are forced to work to pay off a debt, with many workers migrating from India, China, and the Pacific islands to work on plantations in colonial countries.
Racism: A belief in the superiority of one race over others, which was used to justify colonialism and the subjugation of colonized peoples.
White Supremacy: The ideology that white people are superior to people of color, and which was used to justify colonialism and imperialism.
Eurocentrism: The belief that European culture and civilization are superior to all others, which was used to justify colonialism and the spread of Western values.
Nationalism: The idea that people who share a common ethnicity, culture, or language should have their own country.
Anti-imperialism: Opposition to imperialism, colonialism, and other forms of domination and exploitation.
Political independence: The process by which a colony struggles to gain sovereignty from its colonial power.
Decolonization: The process by which colonies achieve political independence from their colonial powers.
Neocolonialism: The persistence of colonial power and domination even after political independence has been achieved through economic, political, or cultural means.
Postcolonialism: The critical study of the cultural, political, and economic legacies of colonialism and the ways in which they continue to affect postcolonial societies.
Globalization: The process of increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world, including economic, cultural, and political interactions.
Transnationalism: The movement of people, goods, and ideas across national borders and the resulting connections and relationships among diverse cultures and ethnicities.
Racialization: The process of attributing certain characteristics to particular racial groups or ethnicities, which can lead to discrimination and prejudice.
Ethnicity: The cultural, social, and historical factors that define a group of people who share a common identity based on their ancestry or cultural practices.
National identity: The shared sense of belonging and loyalty to a particular nation or state.
Self-determination: The right of people to choose their own political, economic, and social system free from external control or interference.
Postcolonial literature: The literature produced by writers from formerly colonized countries who seek to explore the social, political, and economic aftermath of colonialism and the process of decolonization.
Settler colonialism: This type of colonialism occurs when colonizers settle in new regions or territories, taking control of land and resources, and often leading to the displacement and oppression of indigenous peoples.
Exploitative colonialism: This is the most common type of colonialism that involves the extraction of resources from a colonized land by the colonizers without investing in the development of the land.
Administrated colonialism: This type of colonialism involves direct rule and control over a colonized territory by the colonizers i.e through territorial acquisition or political annexation.
Plantation colonialism: Colonizers owned and operated large plantations worked by local or enslaved labor to produce cash crops such as sugar, coffee, and cotton for export.
Surrogate colonialism: This type of colonialism was predominant in Africa and Asia, where the local elites collaborated with the colonizers to maintain power in exchange for supporting colonial rule.
Armed struggles: This is the use of force or military resistance by colonized groups in their fight for liberation.
Passive resistance: This is the use of non-violent means such as boycotts, protests, strikes, and civil disobedience in the fight for liberation and decolonization.
Diplomatic negotiations: This is the use of diplomacy and negotiation to gain the support of other nations in the international community in the fight for liberation and decolonization.
Education: Education was used as a tool for decolonization by educating indigenous people to think critically, build their own cultural movements or language, and promote their own history and culture.
Economic pressure: Boycotts of colonial goods or enactment of trade restrictions was used to force colonizers to decolonize.
Quote: "The meanings and applications of the term are disputed."
Quote: "Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial empires."
Quote: "Other scholars extend the meaning to include economic, cultural and psychological aspects of the colonial experience."
Quote: "Decolonization scholars form the school of thought known as decoloniality."
Quote: "Decolonization scholars... apply decolonial frameworks to struggles against the coloniality of power and coloniality of knowledge within settler-colonial states even after successful independence movements."
Quote: "Indigenous and post-colonial scholars have critiqued Western worldviews."
Quote: "promoting decolonization of knowledge and the centering of traditional ecological knowledge."
Quote: "Such a broad approach that extends the meaning of decolonization beyond political independence has been disputed and received criticism."
Quote: "Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò argued that it is analytically unsound to extend the meaning of "coloniality" to this extent."
Quote: "[He] argued that approaches that see 'decolonization' as more than political emancipation deny the agency of people in former colonies who have consciously chosen to adopt and adapt elements from colonial rule."
Quote: "Others, such as Jonatan Kurzwelly and Malin Wilckens or Veeran Naicker, argued that such scholarly and practical attempts at 'decolonization' perpetuate reified and essentialist notions of identities."
Quote: "Some scholars extend the meaning to include economic, cultural and psychological aspects of the colonial experience."
Quote: "Decolonization scholars apply decolonial frameworks to struggles against the coloniality of power and coloniality of knowledge."
Quote: "Indigenous and post-colonial scholars have critiqued Western worldviews."
Quote: "promoting decolonization of knowledge and the centering of traditional ecological knowledge."
Quote: "Such a broad approach that extends the meaning of decolonization beyond political independence has been disputed and received criticism."
Quote: "approaches that see 'decolonization' as more than political emancipation deny the agency of people in former colonies who have consciously chosen to adopt and adapt elements from colonial rule."
Quote: "such scholarly and practical attempts at 'decolonization' perpetuate reified and essentialist notions of identities."
Quote: "Indigenous and post-colonial scholars have critiqued Western worldviews, promoting decolonization of knowledge."