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 process by which former colonies achieve independence through political, social, and economic means. Involves dismantling colonial institutions and governing structures.
Colonialism: A system in which a country extends its power over other territories, usually for economic or political gain.
Imperialism: The practice of extending power, influence or dominion over a territory or people beyond its borders or limits by physical, political, economic or cultural means.
Nationalism: A political ideology that emphasizes the identity, unity and common culture of a nation.
Hegemony: The domination of one state or social group over others.
Orientalism: A set of beliefs and stereotypes attributed to people from the “East,” often seen as exotic, primitive, or inferior.
Neocolonialism: The use of economic, political or cultural influence to maintain control over former colonies or other dependent territories.
Resistance and Rebellion: The various struggles and movements of colonized people against their colonial rulers, often leading to armed conflict.
Intellectual decolonization: A process of decolonizing the mind by deconstructing colonial ideologies, stereotypes and narratives.
Gender and Decolonization: The examination of the ways in which gender intersects with colonialism and how gender roles and identities are affected by decolonization.
Human Rights and Decolonization: The connection between decolonization and the protection of fundamental human rights, including sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural identity.
Reparations: The compensation or restitution paid to nations or groups that have suffered damages as a result of colonialism.
Globalization and Decolonization: The impact of globalization on decolonization, and how it affects the power dynamics between former colonies and colonizers.
Education and Decolonization: The process of decolonizing education, curricula, and language, including the reclamation and preservation of Indigenous knowledge and languages.
Art and Literature: The role of art and literature in decolonization, including the reclamation and assertion of Indigenous aesthetics and storytelling.
Postcolonial Theory: An interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between colonizers and colonized, the power dynamics that emerge from these relationships, and the implications for culture, politics and society.
Political Decolonization: This refers to the process of granting of independence to colonies by their colonizers.
Economic Decolonization: This occurs when formerly colonized countries seek to achieve economic independence from their former colonizers.
Cultural Decolonization: This involves the rejection of Western cultural norms and values that may have been imposed on colonized people.
Knowledge Decolonization: This re-examines the knowledge systems and epistemologies associated with colonialism, seeking to decolonise the academic curriculum and institution.
Psychological Decolonization: This involves the dismantling of oppressive mentalities that are a legacy of colonialism.
Legal Decolonization: This concerns the recognition of formerly colonized countries as independent sovereigns, making them legally recognized as wielders of power.
Linguistic Decolonization: This seeks to elevate language and knowledge systems that were suppressed under colonialism and empower them to become legitimate carriers of knowledge and culture.
Land Decolonization: This endeavours to restore land to its indigenous people that was taken during colonial rule, this includes elimination of racial and economic inequality that systematically robbed and alienated groups from the land.
Spiritual Decolonization: This aims to eliminate the erasure of traditional spiritual practices and beliefs that were destroyed during colonisation, and promote the revitalization of cultural and ecological systems.
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."