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Post-colonial is a qualifier that identifies both
a context – that is, a country, a city or a polit ical regime after independence from colonial
rule – and a theoretical and epistemological
perspective on that same or related contexts.
Such a perspective not only looks for and
makes explicit the conditions of oppression
and domination pertaining to colonialism but,
crucially, aims at deconstructing the knowl edge forms associated with the latter and,
in the process, integrates the viewpoint of
the oppressed or the colonized. The first is
essentially a political and historical marker
for describing a period or a place, while the
second is an ontological shift to see from the
eyes of the hitherto invisible, racialized or
exoticized, and integrate their worldviews
into a more complete, non-Eurocentric anal ysis. In the latter sense, ‘post-colonial’ is not
merely an adjective but a mode of knowing,
and it is the epistemological basis for the field
of knowledge known as post-colonial studies,
with its ‘impulse to invert, expose, transcend
or deconstruct knowledges and practices
associated with colonialism’ (Sidaway, 2000,
p. 592).
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Post-colonial geographies
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Ascensão, E. (2023). ‘Postcolonial Geographies’. In D. Demeritt & L. Lees (eds.). Concise Encyclopaedia of Human Geography (pp. 292-296). Edward Elgar