colonialist
Foreign territory advocate
A colonialist supports or participates in colonialism—the policy of acquiring and maintaining control over foreign territories and their peoples.
The term carries strong negative connotations, implying exploitation and cultural domination: colonialist attitudes, colonialist powers.
As a noun, it describes someone who advocates or benefits from colonial rule: The colonialists extracted resources while suppressing local traditions.
One who occupies foreign land
- oppressorOne who dominates cruelly
- occupierOne possessing a space
- settlerOne who colonizes territory
- imperialistAdvocate for territorial expansion
conquistador · planter · expatriate · missionary · administrator · exploiter · invader · overseer
Domain under unified control
- settlerOne who colonizes territory
- administratorPerson who manages operations
- governorState's chief executive
- plantation ownerAgricultural estate proprietor
East India Company · scramble for Africa · partition · protectorate · mandate · viceroy · commissioner · trading post
Extending dominion over others
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- civilizing missionClaimed duty to "improve" peoples
- paternalismControlling others for their good
manifest destiny · white man's burden · racial hierarchy · exploitation · domination · annexation · subjugation · hegemony
Compensation for historical wrongs
- postcolonialAfter foreign rule ends
- bordersLines separating regions
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- cultural erasureDestroying group identity markers
resource extraction · infrastructure · debt · dependency · trauma · displacement · diaspora · repatriation
Opposing foreign territorial control
- independenceFreedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
uprising · self-determination · freedom fighter · guerrilla · boycott · civil disobedience · negritude · pan-Africanism
colonizer
One who occupies foreign land
imperialist · conquistador · planter · expatriate · missionary · administrator · exploiter · invader · overseer · governor
empire
Domain under unified control
- settlerOne who colonizes territory
- administratorPerson who manages operations
- governorState's chief executive
plantation owner · East India Company · scramble for Africa · partition · protectorate · mandate · viceroy · commissioner · trading post · metropole
imperialism
Extending dominion over others
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- civilizing missionClaimed duty to "improve" peoples
paternalism · manifest destiny · white man's burden · racial hierarchy · exploitation · domination · annexation · subjugation · hegemony · assimilation
reparations
Compensation for historical wrongs
- postcolonialAfter foreign rule ends
- bordersLines separating regions
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
cultural erasure · resource extraction · infrastructure · debt · dependency · trauma · displacement · diaspora · repatriation · restitution
anticolonial
Opposing foreign territorial control
- independenceFreedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
revolt · uprising · self-determination · freedom fighter · guerrilla · boycott · civil disobedience · negritude · pan-Africanism · nonalignment
- political labelsliberal, conservative, leftist, rightist, moderate
colonialistanticolonialist
Opponent of imperial rule
anti-imperialist · isolationist · separatist · nationalist · protectionist
colonialistanti-imperialist
Opposing powerful states' expansion
freedom fighter · liberator · emancipator · independence leader · revolutionary
colonialistautonomist
Self-governance advocate
multiculturalist · localist · pluralist · nativist · egalitarian
- British colonialismUK's historical empire-building
- European colonialismWestern domination of foreign territories
- French colonialismOverseas rule from Paris
- African colonialismForeign rule over a continent
- settler colonialismOccupation displacing native peoples
- British colonialistsUK subjects colonizing abroad
colonialism, neocolonialism, colonialists, anticolonialist, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism