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Pelosi on ‘Colonial, Decolonial, Anticolonial, and Postcolonial’
OK, ok, okayyy! Today I am tasked with distinguishing four terms:
- colonial
- anticolonial
- decolonial
- postcolonial
For my own understanding, I find it easiest to define colonial and postcolonial together, colonialism as the enactment of oppression and exploitation of people, cultures, and lands, while postcolonialism is concerned with the ramifications, material, and psychological consequences of the colonial process. According to wikipedia, postcolonial often regards the legacy of colonialism, and in some senses may respond to this? At first when I hear the term postcolonial I think of something that does not really exist, because colonialism is still occurring today? But I am unsure if that is just not the point and I am confused.
Next on the list I place anticolonial, which I understand as a term that may mark intentional interventions and political choices to perhaps resist and combat colonialism and its legacy? I feel as though in my understanding of the term I would also say that anticolonial text and thought outlines colonial thinking and processes, and sort of theorizes from this point, but then I think of Maria Lugone’s Towards a Decolonial Feminism and I ask myself if that is sort of what she does with descriptions of the coloniality of gender and difference? So perhaps I am confused in my conceptualization of the term. Overall though I believe it to refer to struggling against colonial rule and thought, a colonized country or people fighting against colonial rule.
Lastly is decolonial, which in my notes I have written is towards a new perspective, perhaps after anticolonial and postcolonial, using these frameworks in understanding coloniality and cultivating new ways and ideas of being/going about things? Decolonial is the continued seeing through of colonial imposition?
In reading all of the material for the course I always feel like I can understand the terms in context, but defining them alone or in relation to another was definitely tricky. I’m looking forward to discussing this in class, as I am not completely confident with my answers lol. Thanks for reading!
dom 2/19/2019 colonial response
When thinking of the term colonial, I tend to think of negative terms such as “colonizer” in which case I interpret the word as strictly antagonistic in nature. Colonial to me means a time before logic and reason were applied to the process of decision making when it involved the livelihood of others. The term colonial is often used to refer to the “beginning” years of America when white people introduced themselves to the continent. I feel like people use the term colonial simply to refer to a specific moment in American history, but more often than not I’ve come to notice that some tend to neglect the fact that other countries too have been colonized much in the same way as the Americas. Decolonial to me means the restructuring of thought and understanding of life and ones existence as it has been impacted by a colonized lens. Undoing the damage done to oneself in regard to how one might exist in their space and how they may in turn think about the roles they play whilst inhabiting that space are what I would consider to be in line with the term decolonial. I have only just recently begun to hear the term anticolonial so this term is still foreign to me. However, I would interpret it to be in reference to practices and actions that explicitly go against and seek to counter the institutions that colonialism seeks to impose upon bodies. I feel that one would use the term anticolonial to refer to a mindset followed by a reconfiguration of how one views the world apart from what they have already learned about the world from a colonized perspective. Postcolonial resembles the term postracial, so I would understand this term to be in reference to the point in time where society is able to accept the differences of others and reconfigure society by eliminating pre-existing conventions that influenced everyone upon unfortunate introduction to colonizers.
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