Colonialism is generally classified into one of five overlapping types according to the practice’s particular goals and consequences on the subjugated territory and its indigenous peoples. These are settler colonialism; exploitation colonialism; plantation colonialism; surrogate colonialism; and internal colon...
What Is a Colony Before Colonialism? Humanist and Antihumanist Concepts of Governmentality from Foucault to MontaigneThis chapter explores writing by Renaissance humanists about colonies. It argues that before the emergence of the great imperial colonial projects in the late sixteenth century (undertaken...
His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in western colonialism and to the cultural importance of Asia, especially China. Takeuchi's writings synthesized philosophy, literature, and history, focusing not simply on Japan and the West but rather on the ...
Colonialism flourished alongside mercantilism, but the nations seeding the world with settlements weren't trying to increase trade. Most colonies were set up with an economic system that smacked of feudalism, with their raw goods going back to the motherland and, in the case of the British coloni...
1. In many societies, colonialism was built on the ideology that ___. European societies were best equipped to help the most disenfranchised members of society European societies were inferior and could learn from cultures in colonial society Certain...
historians. Consideration is given to how the study of gender illuminates the histories of revolution, war and nationalism, industrialization and labor relations, politics and citizenship, colonialism and imperialism using as examples research dealing with the histories of a number of areas across the ...
‘large state sector’ is the primary defect of Sri Lanka’s economy. It is not the size of the sector that has mattered but its inefficiency, incapacity, unproductivity, and sometimes duplication. In Australia, out of the total workforce, 20 percent are in the state sector. But it is ...
They describe coloniality as a persistent historical force that survives beyond the end of formal colonialism. It is a power dynamic rooted in entrenched social and intellectual hierarchies that perpetuate domination. They argue that coloniality helps to create the conditions that make it possible to ...
As welcome as the consultation event was for all in attendance, we need not become complacent once a precedent is established; rather, we ought to strive to improve upon those precedents and to do the work of redressing colonialism in all its forms. Over the course of the day-long ...
Temples of Malta; Domagoj Perkic, who reveals the history of the Croats; Margret Hallmundsdottir, who has been unearthing the secrets of Iceland's Thingvellir National Park since 2010; and Verónica Mateus Pereira, who has devoted herself to examining the legacy of Portuguese colonialism. ...