Post-Colonialism IR

Coloniality

The persistence of colonial patterns of power (economic dependency, Eurocentric knowledge, cultural domination) even after decolonisation

Subaltearen Theories

Explores the agency and voices of marginalised groups excluded from mainstream accounts of politics and history.

Critique

A methodological stance questioning Eurocentrism in IR and exposing the silences in mainstream theories

Indigeniety

Focuses on the rights, struggles, and knowledges of indigenous peoples,

Hybridity

Describes cultural mixing and new identities formed under colonialism, destabilising coloniser/colonised binaries.

Orientalism

The Western construction of the “Orient” as exotic, inferior, and threatening, justifying domination

De-colonial

A project of dismantling colonial power structures in politics and knowledge

De-centering

A movement to challenge Eurocentrism in IR, integrating Global South perspectives, indigenous knowledge, and plural histories