Politics and history Structure 2 Apr 2021 Previously we’ve looked at the term “structure” as it relates to settler colonialism - following Patrick Wolfe’s call to be attentive to how settlement is a social, political, economic and…
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 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…
Museums and Method Exchange 7 Aug 2019 This term is sometimes used to denote the meeting of peoples, ideas and cultures that necessarily accompanied the colonial project. The word “exchange” implies balance, equity and is defined as…
postcolonial theory Encounter 10 Jul 2019 This is a term often found in commemorative anniversary language, particularly referring to both the “moment” of first contact between cultures and the longer processes of colonialism in which cultures…
Museums and Method Discovery 1 Jul 2019 The language of ‘discovery’ tends to be framed within the assumption that Europeans who claimed new territories in the name of the motherland can be credited with the founding of…
Collections Curiosities 24 Jun 201919 Jan 2021 This tends to be invoked to describe displays and historically, was used to refer to reflect the eclectic nature of particularly private collections of everything from exotic objects to living…
postcolonial theory Cultural imperialism 12 Jun 2019 Coined by Palestinian-American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said, this speaks to the cognitive and cultural project of Eurowestern colonisation, to erase indigenous cultures and practices through the imposition…
postcolonial theory Colonialism 6 Jun 20196 Jun 2019 Colonialism is distinguished from “imperialism” in that imperialism generally refers to the outward-looking role of the metropolitan centre in creating an ideological theory and of ruling another territory. “Colonialism”, on…
The Decolonial Dictionary 