Concept

Colonialism

Overview

domination, control, and exploitation of a territory and its people by a foreign power often accompanied by the settlement of other peoples and crimes against humanity

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Colonialism

• Immanuel Kant
• Judith Butler
• Paul Tillich
• Michel Foucault
• Albert Camus
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
• Lewis Gordon
• Val Plumwood
• Jason Josephson Storm
• Camillo Berneri
• Julio Cabrera (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Pakistan Movement
• Fiji
• Vladimir Lenin
• Political freedom
• French Revolution
• Frédéric Bastiat
• Harvard University Press
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Hong Kong
• Heart of Darkness
• Indonesia
• Immanuel Kant
• Isolationism
• Joseph Conrad
• Indian independence movement
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Karl Marx
• Smallpox
• Kuomintang
• Byzantine Empire
• Peru
• London
• Eurocentrism
• Capital (economics)

Opposing perspectives

• Isolationism
• Witchcraft

Place in the tradition

Part of Communism.

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