Anti-Colonial Thought
Challenges colonial domination and claims to govern another people. It examines the political, economic, and cultural conditions needed for self-rule after empire.
Foundational doctrines
- Self-determination
- Opposition to colonial domination
- Political agency
- Critique of racial hierarchy
Disagreement and variation
Anticolonial thinkers disagree over nation, class, violence, and inherited institutions; formal independence may leave economic dependence or internal domination intact. National liberation, socialist, feminist, and Indigenous approaches differ; independence movements do not share one institutional program.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.