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In this month's episode of What the Theory?, we take a look at colonialism and imperialism. More specifically we look at the politics of colonialism and the appearance of colonialist ideology in culture.
As a primer for my upcoming video on postcolonialism, we here take a potted look at the process of colonisation (or colonization for our American friends) before examining the historical justifications for both colonialism and empire.
I then give an outline of how this ideology manifested itself within education under direct rule in India.
Next time, we'll draw upon some of these observations in order to look at the legacy of European colonialism in the present day and at how postcolonial authors, filmmakers, artists and theorists have engaged with this context.
Further Reading
Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe
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Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
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Bibliography
Hulme, P. (1998) ‘Introduction: The Cannibal Scene’. in Barker, F., Hulme, P. and Iversen, M. [eds] /Cannibalism and the Colonial World/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kohn, M. and Reddy, K. (2017) 'Colonialism'. /The Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy/. plato.stanford.edu/entries/co... [26 August 2018].
Mills, J. S. (1885) /Principles of Political Economy/. Abridged. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Page 163.
Mitchell, Jean Brown (2018) 'European Exploration'. /Encyclopaedia Britanicca/. www.britannica.com/topic/Euro... [26 August 2018].
Mookerjee, S. P. (1944) ‘Education in British India’. /The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science/. 233. pp. 30-38.
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