Lateral (Dec 2023)

Decolonization and the Third World

  • Jessica Namakkal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25158/L12.2.6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2

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This essay asks why the Third World has become a symbol of poverty and failed infrastructure while the political imperative towards decolonization has gained popularity. By examining histories of decolonization in mid-twentieth century and the subsequent establishment of postcolonial nation-states that often ignored, suppressed, or actively participated in settler colonial occupations both globally and internally, I argue that there needs to be a widespread reckoning with what constitutes anti-colonial liberation.

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