Postcolonial Studies
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While there is much to be gained from reading Edward Said, I think it's very telling (about the class position of the majority of people in academia) that so much academic discussi...
Divide et impera—Aryan Race vs. Non-Aryan Race (Dravidian). European orientalists (Max Müller, Robert Caldwell, et al.) planted this dichotomy with ‘Racial Connotation’ to hasten t...
“We either fitted with the white or with the yellow”: how Eurasian identity vanished from Hong Kong and the rest of post-colonial Asia https://t.co/GkDTOR1JPG https://t.co/GmyvqbXn...
I am unable to understand the relevance. I can just state where I see value in the entire Decolonisation/Coloniality and all such discourse. That is my journey ofcourse. Nothing p...
EIGHT PRINCIPLES OF SETTLER-COLONIALISM: A THREAD 🧵👇
Re-reading enlightenment thoughts from a decolonial perspective makes one aware of how enlightenment thinkers were complicit in justifying imperialism on the grounds that there wer...
It should be known that the colonialists reached a point that they knew they had 2 leave Kenya since they couldn't handle the Mau Mau war & the world was moving toward accepting in...
