Concept

Subaltern (postcolonialism)

Overview

colonial populations who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony and from the metropolitan homeland of an empire

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

Philosophers who discussed Subaltern (postcolonialism)

• Antonio Gramsci

Related ideas

• Folklore
• Historiography
• Hierarchy
• Power (social and political)
• Authority
• Edward Said
• Postcolonialism
• Middle East
• Bell hooks
• Indian subcontinent
• South Asia
• Knowledge
• Myth
• Social class
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Berlin
• Western Europe
• Sage Publishing
• Working class
• Cultural hegemony
• Critical theory
• Marxist philosophy
• Proletariat
• Discourse

Place in the tradition

Part of Neo-Vedanta.

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