postcolonial studies

noun

The study of the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism; postcolonialism.

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Meanings

nounpostcolonial studies (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe study of the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism; postcolonialism.

    The acceptance of postcolonial studies by a capitalist academia appears as a mode of containment, if not outright manipulation, of liberationist anticolonial energies.

    2016, Raphael Dalleo, editor, Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 4

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Also see
postcolonialism
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