Meaning of self-colonisation | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Over nearly half a century, such self-colonisation has become⟳ a pillar of Britishness.”

“As argued above, self-colonisation is both the incapacitation of the colonised (through trauma and oppression from the coloniser) as well as the coloniser's own⟳ self-colonising (through the unprocessed guilt and denial that accumulates when enacting the colonising relation against the colonised).”

“The Englishness of Sunny's performance, like⟳ her English pseudonym and her 'Liza Minnelli' make-up, point⟳ to the complexes of the GDR (and by extension, of the whole Eastern bloc) towards the West, and its attempt⟳ at self-colonisation.”

“He prefers self-colonisation to external colonisation but one could safely assume⟳ that under current conditions he would not hesitate to recommend⟳ external colonisation because of what he believes to be Africa's incapacity for self-control and self-discipline since colonial rule⟳.”

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