Decolonization

The Politics of Decolonisation and Bi-Nationalism in Israel/Palestine

“…For all its attached redemptive prospects and radical possibilities, it is important to emphasise that the meanings of decolonisation as both a concept and political project are not just broad, but also multifaceted and highly contested. What it means to ‘undo’ colonialism is deeply contextual (Jansen and Osterhammel, 2017). While colonialism can be defined broadly as a relationship of domination in which a people or territory is politically and economically subjugated to a foreign power, actual colonial situations vary quite widely from each other, depending on, among others, the particular political systems instituted to maintain control, types of exploitation and expropriation (resources, labour, plantations), relationship between the metropole and colony and patterns of migration they compel (slavery, settlement).…”

Can artificial intelligence be decolonized?

“…Decolonization/decoloniality: a brief exegesis Decolonization is a contested term. In its formal historical sense, decolonization refers to the process of transferring legal, administrative, and territorial power from colonial hands to indigenous local governments, and thus the establishment of modern nation states independent from European empires (Jansen and Osterhammel 2017). While the abrogation of colonization as a mode of forced rule took place in countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania over the course of the twentieth century, the legacies of colonialism and the racial bifurcation that it was both built on and produced, were not so readily dismantled and overcome.…”