Colonialism and Post-Colonialism

Research

• Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the dominant country claims sovereignty over the colony, and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by colonizers from the dominating country. Colonialism is a set of unequal relationships between the dominating country and the colony and between the colonists and the indigenous population.

• Post-colonial studies entail the critical destabilization of the intellectual and linguistic, social and economic theories that support the Western ways of thinking of perceiving, understanding, and knowing the world

• Post-colonial theory addresses the matters of post-colonial identity gender, race, and racism, and their interactions in the development of a post-colonial society, and of a post-colonial national identity; of how a colonised people’s cultural knowledge was used against them, in service of the coloniser’s interests between the powerful and the powerless.

• Post colonial theorist Edward Said did he research on the middle east and the west and created the term Orientalism which means them vs us.