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dc.contributor.authorKalantidou, Eleni
dc.contributor.editorC. Edwards
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-09T00:30:39Z
dc.date.available2018-03-09T00:30:39Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.isbn9781472521545
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141792
dc.description.abstractIn the preface of the Wretched of the Earth, Jean Paul Sartre unintentionally provided a sketchy outline of colonialism by mentioning Europe’s accomplishment of Hellenizing the Asians and creating a “new breed, the Greco-Latin Negroes” (Fanon, 1963, p. 6). Despite the reality exposed by this statement, the phenomenon and the project of colonialism could not be described within a short sentence. Predominantly, the definitions of colonialism revolve around the notions of control, power, and domination and the act of compel-ling compliance with imposed political, economic, and cultural schemes. Moreover, colonialism designates the subjugation of a community living within a certain territory to a powerful group of invaders. The case, of course, with colonialism is that invasion, in its context, did not take place as a process of war, at least not officially. Notwithstanding the bloodshed that accompanied the settlement of the colonizers or the establishment of their domination, the difference between colonialism and imperialism lies, according to Ronald Horvath and John Hobson (cited in Horvath, 1972), in the fact that colonialism is accompanied by the settlement of a vast amount of colonizers (coming from the colonizing country) in the colonized territory. Indicative examples of colonialism where settlers from a European country migrated permanently to a colonized territory are Latin America, North America, and Australia and of imperialism are the majority of Africa’s and a number of Asian territories (Ibid.). What followed this, as seen in histories and imposed geographies, was the exploitation of the territories’ natural resources; the destruction of their primitive economies and cultures in the name of cultural homogenization according to the colonizer’s protocol; and more specifically, genocides, civil wars, slavery, epidemics, and environmental devastation.
dc.languageenglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBloomsbury
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.bloomsbury.com/au/the-bloomsbury-encyclopedia-of-design-9781472521576/
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleThe Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design vol 1
dc.relation.ispartofchapter5
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom264
dc.relation.ispartofpageto265
dc.relation.ispartofvolume1
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBuilt Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode129999
dc.titleColonialism, Post-colonialism
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB2 - Chapters (Other)
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Queensland College of Art
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKalantidou, Eleni


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