colonialist Betydning & definition

Eksempler på colonialist

• In fact, studies of colonial government have often involved a perspective which is derived from the colonialists' own assessments of their impact on dependent territories.

• Since the colonialists were not merely giving names to existing identities but actually creating them, the problem did not lie with nomenclature.

• As a tool for communication, language serves all people alike, female and male, rich and poor, colonialists and their victims.

• The surviving representations in texts cannot account for or even contribute to the reconstruction of an indigenous experience, they are part of the colonialists' system of representation.

• The nationalist movement resorted to the international arena in a strategy of extraversion, in order to overcome its internal weakness and the rigidity of the colonialists' stance.

• At a time when external peace-keeping missions were being advocated, the olden-time claim by colonialists to have benefited humanity by suppressing inter-tribal warfare no longer seemed as unacceptable as before.

• Since postmodern texts are meant to be obstructive to any dominant discourse, they do not even favour a (potentially hegemonic) anti-colonialist position.

• The dominant interpretation among professional historians has been anti-colonialist.