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14. The Power of Colonial States

2021
This chapter examines Western European colonial rule. Colonialism and its legacies are enduringly controversial. Whether or not colonial rule had redeeming features, it is useful to recognize its major political features, which include its international dimension, bureaucratic elitism and authoritarianism, use of 'traditional' or 'customary' public ...
David Potter, Alan Thomas
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Rescue from Coloniality? The Power of Dreaming

Journal of Family Diversity in Education, 2023
In this essay, the authors reflect on the context and promise of Codesign and Theories of Change (TOC). Throughout my (MK) academic career, the Codesign work undertaken by the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC) has been one of the most inspirational, humanizing, and anti-colonial academic projects in which they have engaged or witnessed. The
Muhammad Khalifa, Nimo M. Abdi
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Introduction: Colonial Feminisms and the Colonial Matrix of Power

2020
This chapter provides an overview of the book’s core aims and critiques. I begin by presenting the rationale for the projects undertaken in Colombia and its relation to the Colonial Matrix of Power (CMP). This discussion also includes a personal rationale for engaging with decolonial projects.
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Coloniality of Power and De/Coloniality of Power

Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018) was born in Yanama, Peru, and became involved in Marxist-socialist revolutionary politics at a young age. He was an active part of the conceptualization of dependence theory in the 1960–1970s and of the shaping of Latin American critical thought.
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Coloniality of Gender and Power

2015
AbstractAnticolonial theories analyze complex power relations between the colonizer and the colonized to promote the political project of decolonization. This chapter situates anticolonial feminist theories in relation to two schools of anticolonial thinking, postcolonial and decolonial theory, particularly the strand of decolonial theory developed by ...
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The Digital Coloniality of Power

2015
Trouble is afoot in Digital Culture and Nerdland. These are, Alexander I. Stingl claims, not the engine of freedom and democracy that they once were hailed to be – this much is already clear in the wake of the snooping and surveillance crises that broke in recent years.
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The Power of Colonial Knowledge

2008
By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Durrani Empire established by Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1747 had fallen into definitive disarray. The Afghans, who had long terrorized the north Indian plain as marauders and helped sack Delhi on more than one occasion, could no longer mount raids into this once rich reservoir of plunder.
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‘The most powerful of the anti-colonial powers’

1996
In May 1952, Churchill gave a farewell dinner at 10 Downing Street for Eisenhower, on the eve of his departure as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe to become a candidate in the US presidential election. The dinner was attended by most of the British Service Chiefs from the Second World War. Eisenhower said that, if elected, he would pay just one visit
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Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala

2012
In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martínez Salazar examines the genocide and other forms of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and '90s with the full support of Western colonial powers.
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Coloniality of knowledge versus coloniality of power

International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 2023
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