Colonialism

Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and other cultural practices on indigenous peoples. The foreign administrators rule the territory in pursuit of their interests, seeking to benefit from the colonised region's people and resources. It is associated but distinct to imperialism.Colonialism is strongly associated with the European colonial period starting with the 15th century when some European states established colonising empires. At first, European …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

writing – a value system that is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy. This is not to say that not disconnected from the interests of Western colonialism and hege- mony. In her book on women in electronic


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

young girl’s fall on a remote island to settler colonialism, maternalism, and the emerg- ing category of accidental moment. In addition to the history of colonialism, this book draws from fields of history taken countries, are historic facts that arise because of colonialism, continentalism, and globalism. In short, and This linkage between the accident and settler colonialism is brought to its logical conclusion with Hudson explicitly contextualize their research in settler colonialism and the ad- vent of the modern state. The emergent


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

obviously ex- perienced the deeply rooted effects of colonialism in our day- to- day lives in Jamaica but were


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

pharmacopoeias were produced and were the products of colonialism, globalization, and the rise of the nation-state’


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the …

global power relations, impe- rialism, and neo-colonialism (Dados and Connell 2012; Kloß 2017). Albeit


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …

suggest that new land grabbers are per- petuating colonialism (GRAIN 2008). The sentiment associated with the


CHB: Coach House Books · 11 June 2024 English

A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head. Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man’s attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to convert


DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English

An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …

the history of revolution, on capitalism, on colonialism, corporate evil, and tons of history crap I never


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English

Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. This critique of mainstream Canadian political science pushes beyond typical studies of institutions …

and career progression, with racism, sexism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression looping back Canadian political science are rooted in settler colonialism with all of its attendant sexist, anti-Black considering ongoing manifestations of settler colonialism. Another example of the limitations of liberal Starting with an understanding of how settler colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy are part of


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 3 June 2024 English

Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good argues, however, that graduate programs must fundamentally change if …

aiming to “unsettle and dismantle settler colonialism” (2018, 223). A version of this spectrum applies uncomfortable and at times ugly work. Confronting colonialism, racism, and other forms of systemic discrimination advancing Canada’s EDID imperative. Understanding colonialism and its legacies are the “home domains” of arts


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