Advantages And Disadvantages Of Decolonization

Established in 1961, the Special Committee of Decolonization is a body of the United Nations, an international bureaucratic agency, working towards the just treatment and interaction of Non-Self-Governing individuals. This body still operates in the present day. The Special Committee of Decolonization defines Non-Self-Governing Territories “whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government”. (United Nations 2017) In essence, a nation where foreign, commonly colonial powers dictate the lives of people who have and maintain rich, diverse, historical, and cultural existence in the world for millennia. And while The Special Committee of Decolonization, works towards the decolonization of these nations, they fail to end the scourge of informal imperialism.

“Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” is an article by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. Through the article, the attempt to explain that the widely used term, “decolonization” is not applied as the term itself specifies. According to Eve and Wayne Yang, the term “decolonization” is now used in social justice rethoric such as enhancing the quality of societies and education and schools (Tuck & Yang, pg 3). The authors argue that decolonization must not lose its initial sense and meaning because any use other than what decolonization insinuates, turns the terms into a metaphor.

The process of decolonization proved to have its own struggles within those who were seeking their independence from imperialist powers. Evidently, these nationalist movements were different in many regions, but they generally shared the sentiment that “Westernization” had taken something away from them. This proved to be the case in Africa and Asia, where the colonization movement from imperialist powers was of strong presence, and that had trouble weakening during and after the Cold War. Part of this struggle was due to the forms of government that were imposed, and because many of these colonies had been in this position for such long time that they were not able to predict upcoming conflicts after their independence. However, in many cases, the problems were more complicated and often implied a combination of reaction to westernization and internal conflicts. Undoubtedly,

She explains what they are, and some terms associated with those schools. Elgersma also addresses the colonialism and the associated mindset that it brings. Elgersma then moves on to current events, and the acts that the government is attempting to do to reconcile the past events of the government. Elgersma lists some of the issues that may arise, and those that have risen in the past, and ways that it can be changed to benefit everyone, not just the non-indigenous viewpoints. She then goes on to explain that decolonization is one of the better ways to diverge and pass this stage in Canadian history. Elgersma speaks about how decolonization would apply to the Canadian populace, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and what that would mean to future generations and future progress as a

According to Fanon, decolonization is “the substitution of one ‘species’ of mankind by another”. (Fanon, 1) By “species,” Fanon refers to the colonist and another are the colonized. It is a violent event because it is the processes when colonized become independent from the colonizers. The consciousness of the colonized demands freedom and change of order. At the same time, the consciousness of the colonizers is terrified of the changes that the colonized might want. That is where we have a mismatch and the clash of ideas that turn into violence. He means that the colonists restrict the colonized with force, so this

Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over dependent territories. In the words of Fanon, in the reading The Wretched of the Earth, “National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the na­tion to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event.” (Fanon, 1). Frantz Fanon was one of many authors who supported decolonization struggles occurring after World War II. He breaks down decolonization into two senses: one being the physical act of freeing a territory from external control of a colonizer, and the other being the psychological act of freeing the consciousness of the native from the alienation caused by colonization. Fanon particularly advocated that violence was justified by overthrowing colonial oppression. In his reading, The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon wrote on why and how colonialism must be stopped. Fanon argued that the colonial infrastructure must be destroyed. “Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is clearly an agenda for total disorder. But it cannot be accomplished by the wave of a magic wand, a natural cataclysm, or a gentleman’s agreement. Decolonization, we know, is an historical process: In other words, it can only be understood, it can only find its significance and become self coherent insofar as we can discern the history-making movement which gives it form and substance,”

The events that lead to decolonization are numerous and interlinking and vary widely from country to country. Three critical factors played a major role in the process: the people’s want for independence/mass nationalism, colonial peoples large scale participation in World War I and II, which exposed the discrepancy in living conditions, and the ascent of Japan as a significant military and imperial force.

When the exploration of the sea immerged, allowing Europeans to easily access other continents such as Africa and the America’s, new land and its borders became in flux too. From such access began a more intense age of imperialism and a new age of colonization. A primary document from 1567 describes one such account of European colonization; Spain’s conquest of the America’s. “By the mid-sixteenth century, Spain had built an empire in the Americas that extended from Mexico to Chile,” an empire stretching some 7000 km (Lualdi 15). Later, in 1883, we see the same fixation on territory continue in European society (Lualdi 186-190). In France, Jules Ferry “fueled his country’s quest to compete in the continent’s race to conquer foreign territory,” focusing on the land grabs in Africa and Asia as compared to the America’s (Lualdi 186). Ferry argued the “necessity of having on the ocean provision stations, shelters, ports for defence and revictualling,” justifying the acquisition of foreign land (Lualdi 189). By the end of the nineteenth century, “European nations competed for direct control of larger and larger regions of the world,” especially fierce over the conquest of Africa (Lualdi 190). These new lands, and its resulting resources, led to increases in markets, economy and influence, often leading to an increase in a Nations power and competition amongst other European

The colony’s achievements, feasible under the framework of Enlightenment that brought economic development, were immortalised by the hands of the first amateur colonial artists. One of the fabricated arguments of the nineteenth century in the European continent was the idealisation of productivity and wealth. The scientific breakthrough due to the Enlightenment was perceived as leading to the rise of production, and therefore to economic improvement. This tenet had been idealised in Europe simplistically; if progress was predetermined, then its consequences were too. Thus, productivity and wealth were integrated into the cultural values of Europe. Hence, economic progress remained an element that made a distinction between civilisation and barbarism.

Various nationalist groups propelled the decolonization process, which in turn impacted the institutions that were built for, said nations (Branch, Glassman, Straker). Moreover, many nations found that they upheld the same colonial structures that oppressed them in the first place (Shepard). In another contrast and comparison, British and French decolonization processes differed; although both France and Britain recognized that “…they were no longer world powers in the way that they had been and that they needed to adjust to this situation,” the French were very personally involved with their colonies of Morocco and Algeria which ultimately led to bloody wars, where as the British practiced a more “indirect rule” and indirect involvement in the decolonization process (Chafer, 2002, p. 11). The ways in which the colonial states were shaped had a direct relationship to how the nation state developed; and nationalism is the ideological response to what colonialism

Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over dependent territories. The word Decolonization has been defined variously. The Oxford English Dictionary defines decolonization as “the withdrawal from its colonies of a colonial power; the acquisition of political or economic independence by such colonies” (Wiki.). The term refers particularly to the dismantlement, in the years after World War II, of the colonial empires established prior to World War I throughout the world. However, decolonization not only refers to the complete "removal of the domination of non-indigenous forces" within the geographical space and different institutions of the colonized, but it also refers to the "decolonizing

The main argument of Fanon is that decolonization can successfully take place only through violence. The colonial world is divided into two habitats of two different species: the settlers and the colonized people. The settlers enjoy the privileges over the natives or the colonized people in strongly built and hygiene, organized zone, surrounded with the masses of food and goods. While, the natives stay in the town of ill-fame, with the limited amount of resources. The natives, feeling envy and desire of possessions, think about overthrowing the settlers (Fanon, 1965, p.38-39).

The parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas contribute to the history of Atlantic World in eighteenth century. Atlantic trade has an important role of economic growth in the Atlantic world, majorly the British empires. There is little doubt that the British held the absolute power of the Atlantic world. As the Industrial Revolution was largely confined to Britain, the Atlantic trade brought a huge success to the British economy. The Americas, one of the British colonies became a huge impact to the success of the British economy. These two populations, the Americas and the African have a common share that the British had taken a number of advantages from them. There are a number of evidence that explain the British deep involvements of the colonization of the

It was responsible for the relocation of 12 million people and the death of thousands as they were forced into slave work. Aside from being a moral tragedy however, it was also responsible for the increase in productivity of many exporting goods, along with the employment of thousands involved in all parts of the slave trade. Daudin argues that England-Africa trade played a large role in the development of the colony and the primitive accumulation of capital before the industrial revolution (Daudin, 2004). This is evident from this paper’s analysis of the slave trade from the supply side; starting at its roots from the capture of the slave, to the final sale in the colonies. From this analysis, it is evident that the slave industry helped develop many entrepreneurs and was profitable, but with low individual rates of return and small overall profit

Throughout the first seven weeks of class, there were numerous readings on the effects of colonization and imperialism. All the authors wrote about different points, using terms such as formal and informal colonies, settler mortality rate, modernization and dependency theory, the scramble for Africa, and more. They each have different arguments but all accurately mention the strong after-effects colonialism and imperialism have on formerly conquered states. These processes are exploitative, hinder state growth, and create devastating and long-term problems.