Meaning of self-colonisation | Babel Free

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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