2. COLONIALISM
“[A colony]is a settlement in a new country
… a body of people who settle in a new
locality, forming a community subject to
or connected with their parent state; the
community so formed, consisting of the
original settlers and their descenant and
successors, as long as the connection
wuith the parent state is kept up”
3. Traditional definition of Colonialism
This definition ignores the existence of
pre-colonial peoples.
Colonialism involves the conquest and
control of other people´s lands and goods.
5. Colonialism and Imperialism
Colonialism ⇒ Implantment of settlements
on distant territories.
Imperialism ⇒ “Practice, theory and
attitudes of a dominating metropolitan
centre ruling a distant territory.
6. Colonialism and Imperialism
Colonialism ⇒ Implantment of settlements
on distant territories.
Imperialism ⇒ “Practice, theory and
attitudes of a dominating metropolitan
centre ruling a distant territory.
Neo-imperialism ⇒ Economic control.
7. Main stages in the development of
Western imperialism
Age of discovery (15th and 16th
centuries).
Age of mercantilism (17th and 18th
centuries).
Age of imperialism (19th and 20th
centuries).
8. Differences between Wstern imperialism
and other forms of imperial conquest
Western imperialism is intertwined with
the development of a capitalist economy.
9. Differences between Wstern imperialism
and other forms of imperial conquest
Western imperialism is intertwined with
the development of a capitalist economy.
Development of a highly elaborate
ideological discourse.
10. Two senses of the word “postcolonial”
Temporal meaning
11. Two senses of the word “postcolonial”
Temporal meaning
Ideological meaning
13. Critique of postcolonialism
The term reproduces a linear and
progressive view of history.
Colonialism is not over yet.
14. Critique of postcolonialism
The term reproduces a linear and
progressive view of history.
Colonialism is not over yet.
Differences between “settler colonies” and
“colonies of occupation”. Ambivalent role
position of settlers.
15. Critique of postcolonialism
The term is too monolithic:
Differences between “settler colonies” and
“colonies of occupation”. Ambivalent role
position of settlers.
16. Critique of postcolonialism
The term is too monolithic:
Differences between “settler colonies” and
“colonies of occupation”. Ambivalent role
position of settlers.
Social and racial differences in the colonies.
17. Critique of postcolonialism
The scope of the postcolonial:
Status of ethnic “minorities” and
immigrants ⇒ Diaspora as a consequence
of colonialism.
19. Critique of postcolonialism
Excessive importance given to colonial
history.
Postcolonialism as neo-colonialism:
Institutional position of postcolonial critics and
theorists.
Reproduction of geographic-economic structure
of colonialism.
20. Sources of postcolonial theory
Intellectual and political activism against
colonialism.
Influence of postructuralism in colonial
discourse theory.
![COLONIALISM
“[A colony]is a settlement in a new country
… a body of people who settle in a new
locality, forming a community subject to
or connected with their parent state; the
community so formed, consisting of the
original settlers and their descenant and
successors, as long as the connection
wuith the parent state is kept up”](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)