Colonialism and Imperialism: Postcolonial Theory concepts | Postcolonialism
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Colonialism
Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. One of the difficulties in defining colonialism is that it is hard to distinguish it from imperialism. Frequently the two concepts are treated as synonyms. Like colonialism, imperialism also involves political and economic control over a dependent territory. The etymology of the two terms, however, provides some clues about how they differ. The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer. This root reminds us that the practice of colonialism usually involved the transfer of population to a new territory, where the arrivals lived as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of origin. Imperialism, on the other hand, comes from the Latin term imperium, meaning to command. Thus, the term imperialism draws attention to the way that one country exercises power over another, whether through settlement, sovereignty, or indirect mechanisms of control.
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According to Edward Said, and many others, the main difference between colonialism and imperialism is that while the former involves actual occupation of the colonized lands, the latter is the ideology that underwrites colonialism and that can also shape even the contemporary perceptions of the developing world in the West.
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Imperialism
In postcolonial theory Imperialism always refers to the ideology that promotes a worldview in which one group of people or a nation assumes that it is inherently superior to other peoples or nations and hence has the right, or obligation, to bring their civilization message to the so-called “inferior’ or “primitive” cultures. While the term Imperium comes from the Roman system of imperial government, in most postcolonial studies only the 19th and 20th century imperialism is studied, as it coincides with the rise of mercantile and later industrial capitalism.
In so many ways it is this imperial mind-set and ideology that underwrites the Western colonial project in the 19th and 20th century. While some actually believed in this way of thinking the non-West, for most nations and its leaders the “civilizing mission” worked as a legitimizing strategy to justify the occupation of non-Western lands for extracting raw materials. One could say, a la Edward said, that imperialism provided the ideological scaffolding, and still does, for the physical occupation of non-western lands.
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A short but insightful lesson. Thanks, Doc.
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Thank you for the lesson! You made it easy to understand the two topics!
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I love your teaching style ❤thank You...and I am from Europe..so no trace of Imperalism mindset -if I am allowed to joke
Thank you. Yes, of course. We all work together across the globe to undo the legacies of colonialism.
Watching this vidéo is better than reading
Two books about the issue. Thanks a lot.
Thank you, but I do highly recommend reading further:)
@@masoodraja we would be very grateful if you could possibly explain more about the dual concepts Postcolonialism/Resistence.
Thank you. I think resistance is pretty easy to understand: just see all instances of semiotic and material resistance. A good reading of feminist resistance is theorized by Chandra Mohanty. I highly recommend her book and I also have a few videos on her book.
Excellent Sir , I read so much about it but so far no one clear my concepts ,but now I understand it so well.
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Such a good insight to the difference between the to. Thank you 🙏
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Wonderfully explained dear sir.
This is Imran from India. I am interested in postcolonial studies.
Keep making such videos.
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It really helped me to prepare for my post colonial paper.. Thank you sir it means alot
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Thanks sir. Is formation of canon comes from Imperialism?
Thank you. I am not sure what you mean. I don’t think I can answer this in one or two sentences.
Wonderful explanation in short time.Thank you sir
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Hey sir , could you suggest me non literary text before 1900 which endows themes of colonialism
Thank you. You could read Robinson Cruso, the first English novel, as an example of colonialism.
Non literary text
@@astikasingh7677 Sorry, I misread your comment. I don’t have a specific text in mind but any travelogues or other works that deal with non European native cultures would have colonial undertones. Hegel on Geography maybe.
The term neocolonialism also needs a bit of attention here. I wonder if you could treat it in a separate video or at least in the comments section here.
farooqpirsai Yes, in my view its current usage conflates it with neoipmerialism. I often use it too, but in most cases what we mean by neocolonialism is the continuation of imperial policies even after the actual colonialism has ended. I will try to record a brief video about it. Thank you for pointing it out.
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This was so helpful! Thank you for sharing!
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To the point, professor! Plz, could you provide us with a definition of transcultural dialogue in cinema
Thank you. Sorry, I don’t think I have any deeper understanding of the concept. If I do learn it carefully enough I might record a video on it.
Hello, I am Syed Sajid Hussain from the north western part of Pakistan. Sir Raja Maqsood I really appreciate your effort by making video regarding postcolinalism. I see your video but one thing which I define tell notice in your video is a lack of writing. Sir if you present your lecture with writing or headline than it will be more beneficial for students. Thank you
Thank you. This is a video-based medium so obviously everything is in videos. People can always read more about the subjects I talk about, as I also list the books that contain the Information.
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Thank you so much sir . Your session really solved my most of the doubts which I had during my class.
Could you also make a video on critical consciousness.
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Thanks for the insights. Very informative.
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thanks for helping me in my exam :)
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very helpful sir . sir can you tell about the apartheid?
Sorry, I have not done much research on South Africa specifically but I am sure there is a lot of material on it on the internet or on apartheid in general.
The US also asserted that it has the right to exploit the natural resources of the Philippines and saw to it that that privilege is embodied in our constitution as a condition for independence.
Yes, the affects of that imperial constitution are still there.
Sir Please explain with PPT
Thanks. Sorry, I hardly ever use PowerPoint
The perfect example is Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir
Thank you. Yes, you can use all examples that you find useful and pertinent.
I know that Postcolonial theory is heavily inspired by Marxism, so I am curious if Lenin’s theory of imperialism is at all relevant for Postcolonial discourse.
I am not sure how much of an influence would it have on contemporary thought but his essay “Imperialism: The Latest Stage of Capitalism” is still very useful because of its insights.
@@masoodraja thank you for the response! I have read Lenin’s work and it was very insightful for me! Which is why I wanted to ask since Lenin’s concept of imperialism is centered around materiality (superprofits, labor aristocracy, finance capitalism, etc.) whereas the imperialism you've kindly defined more so centers around ideology. I know Althusser’s theory of ideology expands upon Lenin’s theory of imperialism and the State. So I guess my last question, if you're not too busy to answer, of course, is, in Postcolonial theory, is there a dialectic of imperialism’s materiality and ideology? Or do Lenin’s theorizations fall more so under colonialism? Or is Lenin’s imperialism just a whole other subject that's not totally concerned in Postcolonial theory?
Sorry for the bombardment of questions, I come from a background in Marxism-Leninism, Materialist Feminism, and Critical Race Theory, and I’ve just recently begun studying Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Postcolonialism, and Existentialism. So I'm just trying to best understand Postcolonial theory better.
And by the way! Your content is wonderful! After reading Gramsci for the first time, I’ve always been confused as to what the proper theoretical usage of “subaltern” is, and your video has helped me out a bunch! Your content is very useful and has helped me better understand theory!
@@sethlee1017 I think Lenin’s thought is pretty pertinent in postcolonial theory, especially if you read Robert Young’s work. But yes, my explanation of imperialism mostly relies on Edward Said, but one could use Lenin’s take on it and then discuss it in a more nuanced materialistic method.
@@sethlee1017 Thank you so much.
where was this when I was in grad school? Oh, RUclips hadn't been invented yet.
Hahaha. I wish I had it too when I was in grad school:) Thank you and welcome!
With respect to Israel, there is a claim that it's colonial but not imperialist because more than half are not from Europe- they're non-white from middle east and north africa. 78percent of Jews were born in Israel so where should they return to? Unlike settler colonial imperialists like the French in Algeria, Brits in South Africa (as parasitical imposters and extractors who belong somewhere else) Jews had moved to Palestine because they had no where else to live to avoid their persecution by hoping to gain a reasonable majority.
Thank you. I guess you can read the concepts and then make up your own mind about it.My stated opinion on Israel-Palestine is for a two state solution.