anti-colonialism
Against foreign rule
Anti-colonialism is opposition to colonial rule—the control of one nation or people by another.
The term encompasses movements, ideologies, and actions aimed at ending colonial domination and achieving independence.
Anti-colonial struggles shaped much of the twentieth century as colonized peoples fought for self-determination: Anti-colonialism swept through Africa after World War II.
The related adjective is anti-colonial.
Ending imperial control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- liberationRelease from constraint
nationalism · resistance · autonomy · self-rule · pan-Africanism · non-alignment · anti-imperialism · neocolonialism
Efforts seeking political autonomy
- freedom fightersArmed opponents of oppression
- revolutionariesThose seeking systemic overthrow
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
rebellion · insurrection · civil disobedience · boycott · strikes · protests · demonstrations · underground
European colonial rush, 1880s-1900s
- Berlin ConferenceMeeting that divided Africa
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- French EmpireBonaparte's imperial state
- Belgian CongoFormer central African colony
Dutch East Indies · Raj · extraction · exploitation · plantations · forced labor · apartheid · segregation
Protections for original inhabitants
- language revivalEffort to restore endangered speech
- cultural preservationProtecting community traditions and artifacts
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- land backIndigenous sovereignty movement
traditional knowledge · oral history · ancestral lands · stolen artifacts · cultural erasure · assimilation policies · boarding schools · folk revival
Expressed verbally, past tense
- orientalismInterest in Eastern aesthetics
- negritudeBlack cultural consciousness
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- otheringViewing as fundamentally different
discourse · representation · epistemic violence · indigenous knowledge · cultural imperialism · hybridity · diaspora · wretched
decolonization
Ending imperial control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
liberation · nationalism · resistance · autonomy · self-rule · pan-Africanism · non-alignment · anti-imperialism · neocolonialism · postcolonialism
independence movements
Efforts seeking political autonomy
- freedom fightersArmed opponents of oppression
- revolutionariesThose seeking systemic overthrow
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
uprising · rebellion · insurrection · civil disobedience · boycott · strikes · protests · demonstrations · underground · militants
scramble for Africa
European colonial rush, 1880s-1900s
- Berlin ConferenceMeeting that divided Africa
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- French EmpireBonaparte's imperial state
Belgian Congo · Dutch East Indies · Raj · extraction · exploitation · plantations · forced labor · apartheid · segregation · missionaries
indigenous rights
Protections for original inhabitants
- language revivalEffort to restore endangered speech
- cultural preservationProtecting community traditions and artifacts
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
land back · traditional knowledge · oral history · ancestral lands · stolen artifacts · cultural erasure · assimilation policies · boarding schools · folk revival · heritage
Said
Expressed verbally, past tense
- orientalismInterest in Eastern aesthetics
- negritudeBlack cultural consciousness
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
othering · discourse · representation · epistemic violence · indigenous knowledge · cultural imperialism · hybridity · diaspora · wretched
- independencefreedom, liberty, Independence Day, autonomy, sovereignty
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
- decolonizationanticolonialism, independence movement, independence movements, freedom fighter, national liberation
- ideologiescapitalism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism
- Modern EgyptGamal Abdel Nasser, Nasser, Suez Canal, Anwar Sadat, Mubarak
anti-colonialismcolonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
imperialism · expansionism · empire-building · settler colonialism · colonial rule
anti-colonialismcultural imperialism
Dominant society imposing its ways
subjugation · foreign rule · colonial administration · annexationism · trusteeship
anti-colonialismexpansionism
Policy of territorial growth
territorial expansionism · manifest destiny · imperialism · annexationism · interventionism
colony, colonial, colonist, colonize, colonization, colonialism