0 the process in which a country that was previously a colony (= controlled by another country) becomes politically independent --
1 the release of one country or territory from political control by another country --
It reveals the importance of the underlying structures of society and the complexities of decolonization.
To consider postcolonial communities first, while they were busy with the project of decolonization, they suddenly found themselves addressing the demands of globalization.
The case is not helped by the treatment of important aspects of decolonization.
They are of particular interest because they make it possible to document visually the enormous social changes which followed decolonization in this region.
Likewise, neither the decolonization process nor the politics of independence can be said to have been particularly characterized by the mobilization of ethnic identities.
Nevertheless, the implication is clear : an ignorant population was unlikely to be much exercised by decolonization.
Decolonization was actually often accompanied by economic expansion at first.
Until the mid-1980s at least, the period of decolonization had to be more or less omitted in public debates.
