Transcription of DECOLONIZATION AS MOMENT AND PROCESS
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11 DECOLONIZATION AS MOMENT AND PROCESS DECOLONIZATION is a technical and rather undramatic term for one of the most dramatic processes in modern history: the disappearance of empire as a political form, and the end of racial hierarchy as a widely accepted political ideology and structuring principle of world order. One can pin down this historical PROCESS by using a dual definition that, instead of keeping the PROCESS chronologically vague, anchors it unequiv-ocally in the history of the twentieth century.
historical phenomenon itself, and they cannot simply be de-fined away. From a global perspective, decolonization has its “hot” and most decisive phase in the middle of the twentieth century during the three decades following the Second World War. The core period of decolonization, however, needs to
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