self-colonisation

English

Noun

self-colonisation (countable and uncountable, plural self-colonisations)

1. Alternative form of self-colonization
   • 2003, Tom Nairn, The Break-up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-nationalism, →ISBN, page xxi:

     Over nearly half a century, such self-colonisation has become a pillar of Britishness.

   • 2014, Fiona McAllan, Speaking–Writing With: Aboriginal and Settler Interrelations, →ISBN, page 174:

     As argued above, self-colonisation is both the incapacitation of the colonised (through trauma and oppression from the coloniser) as well as the coloniser's own self-colonising (through the unprocessed guilt and denial that accumulates when enacting the colonising relation against the colonised).

   • 2015, Ewa Mazierska, From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest, →ISBN:

     The Englishness of Sunny's performance, like her English pseudonym and her 'Liza Minnelli' make-up, point to the complexes of the GDR (and by extension, of the whole Eastern bloc) towards the West, and its attempt at self-colonisation.

   • 2015, Yusuf Bangura, Development, Democracy and Cohesion, →ISBN, page 329:

     He prefers self-colonisation to external colonisation but one could safely assume that under current conditions he would not hesitate to recommend external colonisation because of what he believes to be Africa's incapacity for self-control and self-discipline since colonial rule.