The act of unfairly benefiting from the resources or labor of others, often without their consent.
Colonialism: The practice of acquiring control over foreign lands, peoples, and resources for economic and political gain.
Imperialism: Refers to the political, economic, and cultural domination of one country over another.
Settler Colonialism: A form of colonialism where settlers move into a foreign land and establish their own political and social institutions.
Anti-Colonialism: Organized resistance against colonialism.
Decolonization: The process of undoing colonialism, including through political independence or the restoration of indigenous sovereignty.
Neocolonialism: A form of indirect control wherein former colony territories remain dependent on the colonizing state or institutional systems.
Postcolonial Theory: A critical interdisciplinary approach that examines the legacy and ongoing effects of colonialism in historical and contemporary contexts.
Hybridity: A state of cultural mixing resulting from colonial encounters.
Third World Feminism: A critique of traditional white feminist movements that addressed the concerns of women of color and other oppressed groups from formerly colonized countries.
Orientalism: A discourse that imagines and essentializes the "East" as exotic, irrational, and inferior to the "West.".
Cultural Appropriation: The adoption of elements of one culture by members of another culture.
Indigeneity: Being a member of a group that is believed to be the original inhabitants of a region.
Environmental Racism: The disproportionate burden of pollution and environmental degradation experienced by marginalized communities, often tied to colonial histories.
Global South: A term used to refer to countries and regions that were formerly colonized and face ongoing economic and political inequalities in the global order.
Global North: A term used to refer to colonizers in the past and presently industrialized countries with historically privileged positions.