Decolonization

Decolonization is a historical and political process wherein colonized societies achieve formal independence from imperial powers, distinguished by the dismantling of colonial governance structures and the reassertion of indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural autonomy within the broader context of anti-colonial resistance and postcolonial transformation.

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2017–2026

Variants

Decolonization Studies

Parents

African HistoryAsian HistoryComparative Area StudiesEuropean HistoryIndigenous StudiesInfection PreventionMiddle Eastern HistoryModern HistoryPacific Islander StudiesPacific Studies

Children

Abolition Of Colonial InstitutionsAdministrative DecolonizationDecolonial TheoryDecolonizing HumanitarianismDecolonizing KnowledgeDecolonizing MuseumsPolitical IndependenceSymbolic Erasure

Publications

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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

R. Bin Wong, Dipesh Chakrabarty · The American Historical Review · 2001 · 9.4K citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, History +12

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Thomas D. Hall, Linda Tuhiwai Smith · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2000 · 7.5K citations

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Studies +12

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument

Sylvia Wynter · CR The New Centennial Review · 2003 · 5.4K citations

Social Sciences, History, Human Rights +8

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.

Moira Ferguson, Mary Louise Pratt · Eighteenth-Century Studies · 1993 · 5K citations

Humanities, History, Cultural History +10

Decolonization is not a metaphor

Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang · TSpace · 2012 · 4.1K citations · Full text

Humanities, Multicultural Education, Critical Theory +16

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Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni
University of South Africa, South Africa
22 publications · 2K citations
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Walter D. Mignolo
Duke University, United States
19 publications · 2.4K citations
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Robert L. Tignor
Princeton University, United States
15 publications · 4.1K citations
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Jean Comaroff
University of Chicago, United States
15 publications · 3.9K citations
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Frederick Cooper
University of Michigan, United States
14 publications · 1.9K citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 461 publications · 41.5K citations
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The American Historical Review
AHR · 198 publications · 26.9K citations
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
100 publications · 5.8K citations
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Foreign Affairs
49 publications · 4.3K citations
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Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
54 publications · 12.9K citations
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