Postkolonijalna kritika
Postcolonial critique

Author(s): Damir G. Zejnulahović, Đorđe Hristov
Subject(s): Politics, Philosophy, Governance
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Postcolonialism; Decolonization; Ambivalence; Critique
Summary/Abstract: The phrase postcolonial critique contains an ambivalence that lies in the very relationship between postcolonialism and the endeavor of critique. The term postcolonial refers to what comes after—the condition following the decolonization of European territories in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. On the one hand, decolonization is a historical fact that encompasses the period after World War II, when many colonies gained independence from their Western rulers. But as Achille Mbembe points out, although the term is often treated as part of a historical, geopolitical, and economic process of establishing new nation-states, the philosophical understanding of decolonization cannot be reduced to dates and historical facts (Mbembe 2021: 43).

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