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9 hours ago · Colonialism and Apartheid’s Legacy on Land and Labor in South Africa. Land dispossession among South Africa’s majority black population remains a thorny issue 30 years into democracy. Labour law scholar Marthinus van Staden’s new research examines the historical relationship between land dispossession and labour control in South Africa ...
9 hours ago · Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region has received much critical acclaim since its publication with Pluto Press in October 2023. Here, while acknowledging the usefulness of such a volume in the current climate and highlighting several must-read chapters, Max Ajl sees a missed opportunity in how the book is framed by its co-editors, Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell. Missing a broader anti-imperialist politics, among other issues, Ajl argues that the ...
9 hours ago · While colonialism brought some technological and administrative advances, the economic costs to Africa were huge. The colonial system was designed to benefit the colonizers, not the colony. It systematically underdeveloped the African economies and made them subservient to the economic interests of European powers.
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9 hours ago · Goch and Rhys insist upon the historical context of colonialism at work even in the present day, so towns such as Trelew or Gaiman are not presented as a ‘free Utopian Wales’ of the settlers’ dreams, but instead part of a historical process of colonisation, territorial expropriation, resource extraction and political repression.
9 hours ago · For a region with an estimated slow growth rate of 2.1 per cent and a strong dependence on commodity prices, diversification is vital. If these conditions are generally true for Latin America as a whole, there are country-specific characteristics that make some Middle Eastern nations more suitable partners than others.
9 hours ago · Read "Israel: The Last Vestige of European Colonialism in the Middle East" by A.A. Castor available from Rakuten Kobo. "Israel: The Last Vestige of European Colonialism in the Middle East" is an in-depth examination of the historical and o...
9 hours ago · Settler colonialism is characterized by militarized populations of settlers in remote areas beyond effective state control. Rather than labor or economic surplus, the settlers want to acquire land from indigenous people, [152] making genocide more likely than with classical colonialism. [153]
