Colonialism has gotten a bad name in recent decades. Anti-colonialism was one of the dominant political currents of the 20th century, as dozens of European colonies in Asia and Africa became free.

FROM the sandy wastes of North Africa to the lush rain forests of Southeast Asia, the winds of anti-colonialism blow with gale force, and wherever they blow, there is resentment and suspicion of the U ...

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The role of colonialism in knowledge production processes was discussed during a panel titled 'The Problem of Knowledge ...

Tropes against African Indigenous communities linger and continue to shape conservation, which has led to “protective” and ...

In January 2026, a claim that Britain's King Charles III reasserted British rule over "the colonies formerly known as the United States of America" spread online. According to one popular post ...

Many scholars have studied the effects of colonial management on terrestrial resources, but what about the effect of ...

Image: Tar sands, Alberta. Credit: Dru Oja Jay/Flickr, CC 2.0. The consequences of colonialism and imperialism, in all their forms and across all their epochs, defy our imagination. Unspeakable ...

“A group of people coming into another person’s land or any space, or property or territory, and replacing their beliefs with theirs, and their traditions, and taking over their culture,” Talaya said ...