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The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad contains five parts: "Revolutionary Warfare and Counterinsurgency"; "Third World Politics: Pathologies of Power, Pathologies of Resistance"; "On the Cusp of the Cold War: Portents of a New Century"; "The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Colonization in the Era of Decolonization" and "South Asia". [2]
The book begins with the line "The word itself, 'research', is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world's vocabulary." Smith contends that Western paradigms of research are "inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism."
Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. [1] The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial ...
Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
The coloniality of power is a concept interrelating the practices and legacies of European colonialism in social orders and forms of knowledge, advanced in postcolonial studies, decoloniality, and Latin American subaltern studies, most prominently by Anibal Quijano.
Decolonization, as a theory, involves assessing history in order to benefit the advancement of society on an international level, during the process of world-making. [3] It involves better assessing the failures and limitations of decolonization in history and anti-imperial efforts to benefit remaking the international order. [ 3 ]
Data decolonization is guided by the belief that data pertaining to Indigenous people should be owned and controlled by Indigenous people, a concept that is closely linked to data sovereignty, as well as the decolonization of knowledge. [75] Data decolonization is linked to the decolonization movement that emerged in the mid-20th century. [76]
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was a victory against a great power, aided by France and Spain, Britain's enemies.