postcolonial studies

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postcolonial studies (uncountable)

  1. The study of the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism; postcolonialism.
    • 2016, Raphael Dalleo, editor, Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
      The acceptance of postcolonial studies by a capitalist academia appears as a mode of containment, if not outright manipulation, of liberationist anticolonial energies.