postcolonial theory Settler colonialism 3 Mar 20213 Mar 2021 Not all colonies are created in the same way. Whilst under imperial domination colonies are sustained and exploited to support the metropolitan centre, settler colonialism functions through an invasive structure…
postcolonial theory (Post)colonial 21 Oct 201921 Oct 2019 The final post in our mini-series on the postcolonial offers a version of the term that attempts to signal to the critical perspectives that have been raised by scholars and…
postcolonial theory Postcolonial 15 Oct 2019 The second variation of “postcolonial” moves us away from the historicised connotations that the hyphen in “post-colonial” denotes. Instead of describing a historical moment following independence from official colonial rule,…
postcolonial theory Post-colonial 10 Oct 201910 Oct 2019 This is the first in a mini-series unpacking the various ways in which we might employ the term “postcolonial”. How the term is written changes its meaning, leading to different…
postcolonial theory Other 4 Oct 201919 Jan 2021 Philosophically, the concept of “the Other” is used to delineate another and to distinguish them from the self. Consequently, the Other has elements that are recognisably like the self, but…
postcolonial theory Orientalism 24 Sep 2019 Edward Said’s term, outlined in the eponymous 1978 book, is one of the most widely-quoted in cultural theory. Describing the representational system through which the Euro-American West imagines and defines…
postcolonial theory… Invasion 9 Sep 2019 Often, exhibitions and displays that attempt to tell the story of colonial contact use words like “encounter”, “exchange” and crucially, “arrival”, to describe the historical moment at which cultures met…
postcolonial theory Imperialism 28 Aug 2019 We have previously discussed the differences between “colonialism” and “imperialism”, but it is useful to refresh. So, whilst colonialism describes the place of settlement/colonial control (e.g. India, Aotearoa/New Zealand/Algeria), imperialism…
postcolonial theory Exotic 20 Aug 2019 Descriptions of faraway lands and their cultures and resources are sometimes talked about as ‘exotic’ as a way of expressing appreciation and unfamiliarity at the same time. An example of…
postcolonial theory Eurocentric 18 Jul 2019 Literally a central framing of European culture, history, epistemology or practices as pre-eminent. This happens in many disciplines, and is not limited to art and/or history. This is a limited…
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