Decolonization

If the ‘history from below’ of subaltern studies aims at this rereading ‘against the grain’ of the colonial (and postcolonial) history of India by highlighting the ‘daily forms of resistance’, it suggests above all a ‘redefinition’ of the archive itself: wherever the traditional archive is insufficient (particularly concerning women’s history), recourse to ‘different’ sources in which the ‘subaltern voice’ can be heard is necessary. It is through the alternative that feminist history is…

In the negotiation process is critical to consider the cultural differences between buyer and seller. In a study about “What is culture?” lead by the University of Warwick, there are around 164 definitions of culture due to the multiple usages of this concept. In my opinion, the best meaning of culture is “the set of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors shared by a group of people, but different for each individual, communicated from one generation to the next” (Matsumoto, 1996). Taking…

rebellion demonstration sent U.S. commentators to jail. In 1916, the Jones Act ambiguously guaranteed autonomy once the Philippines set up a "steady government." The United States at last finished its manage in 1946 amid a post–World War II time of decolonization (Norton,…

represented 81% of the admissions to provincial sentenced custody while they represent 11% of the general population in this province” (Perreault, 2009, p.5). Canadians have put Indigenous communities through much heartache and pain. With the decolonization of the different communities of Indigenous people to residential schools, Canadians continue to stigmatize and treat Indigenous people scantily. Indigenous people are more likely to suffer from drug abuse using needles because of the…

Autobiography and Tehmina Durrani Ayesha Anwar Warsi Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University Faizabad One of the most important and ultimately most controversial is the autobiographical writing which has established itself against the dominant patriarchal grain, allowing for, if not insisting on, alternative interpretations, most specifically the Feminist Reading. In some ways, however, the furious intellectual labor necessitated by a history of exclusion and neglect made the new field of…

Frantz Fanon sought to understand colonization more through minds rather than within the physical world. Living in France, he saw how people (men especially) from Africa acted once they arrived in what he calls the “host country” as compared to how they would act in their homeland. In order to advance their status and to be accepted, black people felt they needed to adopt the cultural standards of the host country. In order to do this, African men would try to emulate what they saw in white…

outlook. Democracy can only ascend “organically” in a country and requires an extensive period of social, economic and cultural transition to fit into the “liberal democratic” scheme of things. However, in recent decades, especially after the decolonization period in the twentieth century, democracy has taken root in nations with different cultures and different levels of economic development. Countries that were previously colonized and installed a democratic form of government much after…

Some studies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict postulate the conflict has always been rooted in the question of partition of Palestine. But a game changing event took place in the form of the six days war between Israel and three Arab states, whereupon the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians began to transform into one of colonial nature. Israel has built a number of settlements on the territories it occupied in 1967, which practically is a form of annexation. The persistence of the…

conflict or land seizures? Locked forever into the past, the Indian sits at the edges of time itself, the a priori non-Human from which civilization is built against. The fact that the debate amongst prominent theorists about what constitutes decolonization itself…

Furthermore, the Indian Act passed in 1876 gave the government control over most aspects of aboriginal life. The Act outlined who was part of the indigenous community and who was allowed to live on the reserves. The author of Troubling the Path to Decolonization: Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Illegitimacy, Leslie Thielen- Wilson argues that the brutal incidents that took place inside Indian Residential…