postcolonial studies

English

Noun

postcolonial studies (uncountable)

1. The study of the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism; postcolonialism.
   • 2016, Raphael Dalleo, editor, Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     The acceptance of postcolonial studies by a capitalist academia appears as a mode of containment, if not outright manipulation, of liberationist anticolonial energies.