A case against colonialism

Rodriguez, Amardo

doi:10.1080/13688790.2018.1474705

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“…On the international stage, probably the most prominent vindication of colonialism came from political scientist Bruce Gilley (2017) and was published in Third World Quarterly (of all journals), which had hitherto been seen as critical and anticolonial. Although the majority of members of the editorial board stepped down because of this publication (Richey et al 2019), and although numerous determined rebuttals of the Gilley article have been written (e.g., Hira 2017;Klein 2018;Rodriguez 2018), TWQ had given a platform to the "original" hypothesis that colonialism was beneficial for people under European rule.…”

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Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse

2023

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Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse

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“…Hegemoni dan stereotip merupakan praktikpraktik dari nilai kolonialisme (Bhabha, 1994), yang mengglorifikasi dan memosisikan bangsa penjajah superior dan bangsa terjajah inferior, baik secara sikap, perilaku, dan pemikiran (Soekarno, 1964a:188). Praktik hegemoni membuat bangsa terjajah selalu berada dalam kekuasaan dominasi dari bangsa penjajah, dan jejak hegemoni dari bangsa penjajah selalu meninggalkan penga ruh terhadap bangsa yang terjajah (Fennell, 2018;Rodriguez, 2018) -pengaruh tersebut meliputi 4 hal, yakni politik, budaya, tekstual, dan identitas (Said, 2010). Penjajahan tidak lagi menjadi soal penghisapan sumber daya, tetapi juga mengarah pada kontrol cara berpikir terhadap suatu bangsa -alhasil menentukan posisi bangsa yang superior dan bangsa yang inferior.…”

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Identitas Keindonesiaan dalam Pidato Soekarno pada 1 Juni 1945

Sujoko

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Wahyudi

2021

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Kolonialisme menghilangkan jati diri dan kepribadian Indonesia, karena penjajahan identik dengan hegemoni kebudayaan dan pemikiran stereotip. Untuk melawan praktik ini, Soekarno telah merintis pemikiran yang menonjolkan identitas bangsa Indonesia. Kristalisasi pemikiran ini tertuang dalam pidato 1 Juni 1945. Tujuan dari penelitian untuk membongkar third space of communication pidato Soekarno dalam membangun identitas bangsa Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis hermeneutika untuk mengetahui usaha apa yang dilakukan oleh Soekarno untuk menemukan identitas bangsa Indonesia. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pidato 1 Juni 1945 adalah ruang komunikasi bersama untuk memfasilitasi nilai-nilai dan kebudayaan yang berbeda di Indonesia. Pertemuan nilai dan kebudayaan tersebut pada akhirnya berujung pada penemuan identitas bangsa dan narasi untuk melawan hegemoni kolonialisme. Penelitian ini berkontribusi pada pengayaan konsep third space of communication sebagai kajian Ilmu Komunikasi pada fenomena komunikasi di Indonesia.

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“…It only takes one academic article promoting the logic of colonialism to immediately burden those still affected by the reverberations of this structure of subjugation and dehumanization with the task of disproving this argument, allowing those benefiting from white supremacy and privilege to continue taking their privilege for granted. 36 It is indeed by incessantly and deliberately staging a debate-without-history that white hallucinations maintain their efficacy and strength in reinscribing white normativity and supremacy. Epistemic exploitation flourishes under conditions where one sees the world without seeing its structure or its history.…”

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White hallucinations

Milders

2021

Postcolonial Studies

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In this paper, the concept of white hallucination is developed through the prism of a recent debate about the permissibility of defending colonialism. The latter is, unsurprisingly, steeped in colonial nostalgia and a defence of free speech. These arguments, however, have to be related to the operation of whiteness itself. White hallucinations concern the psychopathological tendency of whiteness to incessantly reinscribe its mastery of the world. Cases for defending colonialism expose whiteness as a delusion that is reasserted by demanding 'proof' against its normativity while simultaneously discarding alternative knowledge claims made by testimonial epistemologies of colonial subjugation and dehumanization. The argument further unravels whiteness as a position-without-positionality that seeks to maintain its normativity and supremacy by aligning itself with rationality, objectivity and humanity as such and subjugating non-white perspectives, experiences and knowledges to the spectre of nonexistence. KEYWORDSWhiteness; colonialism; epistemicide; Frantz Fanon; free speech because white men can't police their imagination black men are dying Claudia RankineA Case for Colonialism. No matter how one reads this title of a recently published (and soon retracted) peer-reviewed academic article, the suggestion that there is such a thing as a reasonable and sincere defence of colonial enslavement, conquest, genocide, exploitation, subjugation and dehumanization immediately moves beyond the rhetoric of innocent provocation. Although it is easy to dismiss this as mere academic clickbait that should not be dignified with a substantiated response, leaving the case unchallenged arguably risks becoming complicit in its normalization. Typically, then, the controversy around the argument and especially its retraction solicited a range of responses that, while not agreeing with the argument itself, nonetheless opposed its retraction as a censorious violation of the virtuous endeavour of knowledge production. The whole affair could have been easily dismissed as further insulating the academic bubble if the suggestion that arguments such as this should be debated rather than discarded did not find

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A case against colonialism

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Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse

Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse

Identitas Keindonesiaan dalam Pidato Soekarno pada 1 Juni 1945

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