{"id":535,"date":"2016-03-13T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:54:05","slug":"decolonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Decolonization 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3543 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MICHAEL-COOK-CIVILISED-2012-12543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MICHAEL-COOK-CIVILISED-2012-12543.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MICHAEL-COOK-CIVILISED-2012-12543-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MICHAEL-COOK-CIVILISED-2012-12543-890x1024.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MICHAEL-COOK-CIVILISED-2012-12543-768x884.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1130px) 100vw, 1130px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The colonial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=21\">state<\/a> was not about being of service to the colonized. It was about exploitation and extraction of resources. The post-colonial state is exactly the same. &#8230; They are building a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=28\">system<\/a> of apartheid in which the poor are separated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=177\">rich<\/a> and the rich are connected to the West, to the metropolis. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=738\">Decolonization<\/a> was a necessary step but not a sufficient one. &#8230; I don&#8217;t think that we are going through a process of recolonization because we never really went through the process of decolonization. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=89\">Globalization<\/a> has increased the number of buyers and sellers in our countries. Nothing else has changed. &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aus: Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire. Interviews with David Barsamian. Cambridge, Mass.: South End 2000, S.112\/13.<\/p>\n<p>Abb.: Michael Cook: Civilised #6, 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelcook.net.au\/projects\/civilised\">im Internet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">03\/16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The colonial state was not about being of service to the colonized. It was about exploitation and extraction of resources. The post-colonial state is exactly the same. &#8230; They are building a system of apartheid in which the poor are separated from the rich and the rich are connected to the West, to the metropolis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}