Decolonization

Word DECOLONIZATION
Character 14
Hyphenation decolonization
Pronunciations /diːˌkɒl.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Decolonization"

What do we mean by decolonization?

The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence.

The reverse of colonization, i.e. granting back autonomy to a group.

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The word "decolonization" in example sentences

Though decolonization is almost complete, we should not overlook the United Nations 'very respectable record in this process, particularly in making it less violent than it might have been. ❋ Unknown (1984)

I’ve been reading Robert Meredith’s book on The Fate of Africa lately, and one striking thing about the section on decolonization from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s was precisely the extent to which in many circumstances the imperial powers were looking for an exit strategy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Chinese revolution had to await, among other things, the crisis if imperialism and the Second World War, the overall process of decolonization - in other words, the simultaneity of the anticolonial revolutions - in order to finally take control of state power. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It would recognize broad new rights for Bolivia's Indians, termed "original indigenous peasant peoples" in the document, and demand "decolonization" of all aspects of society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During the same period a widespread process of "decolonization" occurred, by which many countries gained or regained their independence and the right freely to determine their own destiny. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Perhaps for this reason, or because they reached a public that, witnessing the final throes of "decolonization," was somewhat preoccupied with the subject, these books were read, or at least talked about, by far more people than is usual for such academic works. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I adapt this phrase from the Kenyan revolutionary author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who argues at length that the cultural emancipation of African peoples must proceed in part via a pedagogical "decolonization" of the mind. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Whatever the side effects of "exaggerated rhetoric" may be, they are not the main issue; and "exaggerated rhetoric" may not be the only or best way to achieve psychological "decolonization" or "social glue." ❋ Draper, Theodore H. (1970)

It seems in order to achieve the outcome that you've been outlining we need a kind of decolonization of the mind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes, we have been and still are the donkeys and mules of the world, but through the process of decolonization which is first and foremost a mental process, then a physical reality, we shall arrive back through the door of no return.

Sarkozy has brushed aside the criticism, saying in comments reported by the French press that the carbon tax was similar to other major reforms that were originally unpopular in France, such as decolonization and the repeal of the death penalty.

If anything, the trade expanded and flourished as never before in the wake of decolonization -- when American traders were forced to seek pelts well beyond familiar shores. ❋ Kirk Davis Swinehart (2010)

I would direct you to David Remnick's recent article in the New Yorker where he quotes the Justice Minister, Yaakov Shinshon Sha-pira, from a record of the first Israeli Cabinet meeting after the 1967 War: In a time of decolonization in the whole world can we consider an area in which mainly Arabs live, and we control defense and foreign policy?.... ❋ Roger Waters (2011)

Does that sound like decolonization or rather a shuffling of colonizers? ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a demographic decolonization, the ethnic-Russian population has dropped from one-third at the end of the Soviet Union to less than one percent. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Third Worldism," which rose out of decolonization and the triumph of Marxist revolutions in developing countries, is the belief or pretense that the economic and political interests of poor nations are in variance and contradiction to those of rich nations—specifically those with Western values and modes of living. ❋ Fabio Rafael Fiallo (2011)

In France, the decolonization of Algeria led to bloody riots on the streets and several attempts to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. ❋ Unknown (2012)

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