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A branch of feminism that analyzes the ways colonialism and imperialism affect the experiences and understandings of gender.

The practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

Concept often used in postcolonial feminism referring to the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, which can lead to complex systems of discrimination and privilege.

Term used by postcolonial theorists to refer to populations which are socially, politically, and geographically outside the hegemonic power structure.

Concept by Edward Said that describes the way Western thought distinguishes between 'the Orient' and 'the Occident,' leading to a biased representation and an authoritative stance.

A process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream, often leading to marginalization.

The political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.

A worldview that is centered around Western civilization, to the exclusion of other cultures.

A concept in postcolonial studies to describe the mixing of cultures that occurred in the colonies, leading to the creation of new identities.

The act of imitating the culture of the colonizer by the colonized, often as both an intentional and unintentional consequence of colonization.

A theorist known for her work on postcolonialism and who introduced the 'subaltern' in the context of postcolonial feminism.

The process of making things uniform or similar by reducing cultural diversity through assimilation or integration.

The process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.

The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies.

A branch of feminist thought which criticizes Western feminism for being ethnocentric and not accounting for the experiences in non-Western societies.

The scattering of people from their original homeland or the community formed by people who have exited from or been removed from their homeland.

A term coined by Gayatri Spivak for the use of essentialist categories to enable underrepresented groups to form a collective identity for purposes of empowerment.

A postcolonial theorist known for his work analyzing the psychological impacts of colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized.

The principle that an individual's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.

A movement that seeks to address the particular ways colonialism has affected the experiences of indigenous women and their communities.

The wrong done to someone in their capacity as a knower.

A discipline that examines the relationship between postcolonial theory and the environment, addressing issues of environmental justice in postcolonial contexts.

A tactic used to disrupt dominant narratives and ideologies by repeating and reappropriating them for a critical purpose.