Abstract
Not only does the generic term "decolonisation" barely acknowledge the diverse experiences of colonial rule, the wide variety of anticolonial movements or the continuities with the past that define today’s global South, the old division into precolonial, colonial and postcolonial eras doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either.
Details
Title
Decolonisation: too simple a term for a complicated history
Author
Bayart, Jean-François
Linking Note
In: Global Challenges. - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. - No. 10(2021), Article 2
Date
2021
Content Type
Journal Articles
Record Created
2021-11-15
Record ID
299502
Note
Dossier "Decolonisation: a past that keeps questioning us", produced by the Research Office