Concept
Postcolonialism
Overview
Postcolonialism is the academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. The field started to emerge in the 1960s, as scholars from previously colonized countries began publishing on the lingering effects of colonialism, developing an analysis of the history, culture, literature, and discourse of imperial power. Postcolonial studies overlaps with the related fields of critical theory and cultural studies.
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Philosophers who discussed Postcolonialism
Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- Historiography
- Philosophy
- Arthur de Gobineau
- Republic of Ireland
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Ireland
- Power (social and political)
- Individualism
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Imperialism
- Joseph Addison
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Isocrates
- Politics (Aristotle)
- Roland Barthes
- Laos
- Eurocentrism
- Edward Said
- Modernity
- Sociology
- Eastern world
- Ernest Renan
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Africana philosophy.