colonialism~decolonialism
colonialism
Section titled “colonialism”- colonialism as a global system of domination driven by European conquest, trade and empire
- occupation, extraction, cultural suppression
- ‘justified’ through racial hierarchies, white saviour narrative, missionary work
- orientalism, East vs West, North vs South, etc
- not just the ‘legacy’ of colonialism, the structures still surround us
- decolonising research
- hierarchies of race, culture, bodies, religion
- making land, resources and social systems ‘legible’ to colonisers, by erasing identity
- less ‘developed’ nations supposedly in need of guidance
- institutions that still dominate often directly profited (and still exist due to the ongoing effects of) colonialism
- museums, collections, ‘primitive’ objects and knowledge systems, ripped from context