Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people, in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole whose agents also claim superiority. Colonialism functions by differentiating the targeted land and people from the colonizers, and rather than outright annexation it typically culminates in organizing the colonized into colonies kept separate from the colonizers' own metropole; it can deepen into settler colonialism, in which settlers from one or more colonizing metropoles occupy a territory with the intention of partially or completely supplanting the existing indigenous peoples.
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The English overseas possessions, sometimes referred to as the English Empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories and colonies that were conquered or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of England before 1707 when the Acts of Union joined England with the Kingdom of Scotland and created of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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The Genoese colonies were a series of economic and trade posts in the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
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Sweden controlled a number of colonies outside Europe between 1638 and 1878.
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European colonialism began in the fifteenth century, with Portugal 's conquest of Ceuta.
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Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole, who also claim superiority.
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Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole, who also claim superiority.
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She displayed a notable "anthropological sensitivity", detailing the destruction of the English peasantry, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans, as well as the effects of British colonialism in India and China, and French colonialism in Algeria.
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Under Magdoff's direction, the Monthly Review increasing focused on imperialism as the key unit of analysis for global development and the forces challenging neocolonialism in the Third World.
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Du Bois viewed Japanese colonialism in Manchuria as benevolent; he wrote that "colonial enterprise by a colored nation need not imply the caste, exploitation and subjection which it has always implied in the case of white Europe.
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Aníbal Quijano (17 November 1930-31 May 2018) was a Peruvian sociologist and humanist thinker, known for having developed the concepts of "coloniality of power" and "coloniality of knowledge".
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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925-6 December 1961) was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory.
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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925-6 December 1961) was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory.
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His work transformed the study of colonialism by applying post-structuralist methodologies to colonial texts.
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She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and affect.
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She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and affect. She is particularly known for her writings on race and sexuality in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
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As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies.
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He is well known for his writings on colonialism and being a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
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His book Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (1975; 1998) presented a social structural analysis of nationalism, in contrast to then-popular cultural explanations of the phenomenon-and was one of the first such studies to employ multivariate statistical analysis.
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Internal Colonialism: the Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536-1966
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In this work, Spivak launched the concept of "sanctioned ignorance" for the "reproducing and foreclosing of colonialist structures." This concept denotes a purposeful silencing through the "dismissing of a particular context as being irrelevant."
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Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, and Frantz Fanon, Azfar Hussain in his interdisciplinary work examines how such global systems as capitalism, imperialism/colonialism, racism, and patriarchy work in their interconnections, and how they affect the practice of everyday life both locally and globally, both economically and culturally, and he focuses on the ideas of revolutionary politics and radical social transformation.
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His experiences and studying of Marxism-Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an intrinsic result of imperialism, neocolonialism, and monopoly capitalism, with the only remedies being proletarian internationalism and world revolution.
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Mohamed Abdou, also known as Mohamed Jean Veneuse, is a Canadian-Egyptian academic, author, and activist whose research focuses on decolonial theory, Islamic studies, anarchism, and indigenous resistance.
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He is also known for his opposition to Nazism, fascism, capitalism, imperialism and colonialism, in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War.
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