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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Post-colonialism first. Post-colonialism or coloniality was a consequence of post-modernism or post-modernitythe other or complementary side of post-modernity. It emerged in the North Atlantic, Paris, London and the U.S. And it emerged bringing together post-structuralism (Foucault, Lacan and Derrida) in conversation with Orientalism and post-partition India. Edward Said frames Orientalism as a form of colonization of knowledge, following Foucaults archeology of knowledge. Hommi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak read post-partition India and its British colonial past through Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, respectively. Thus, in that sense, post-colonialism was introduced mainly in the U.S. academy through post-structuralism and colonialism, after the post revealed, intentionally or not, the missing side of modernity (as in post-postmodernity and post-modernism). De-coloniality is something else in many respects. First of all, as a concept it has de-colonization as its ancestor during the Cold War years, with the de-colonization of Asian and African countries. In Latin America, the term was adopted in the social sciences (Fals Borda), in philosophy (Dussel, philsophy of liberation) and in the theology of liberation. It was not a central concept, but it was there. And when it wasnt there, like in dependency theory, it was implied in the sense that if developing (Third World) economies cannot develop and modernize while they remain dependent of developed, industrial, First World economies, then the next step would be to de-link them, as Egyptian sociologist Samir Amin argued. De-linking is part of the grammar of decolonization. But de-colonization here is no longer used in the sense
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