https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:8654 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:41:25 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26308 Postcolonialism, Young (2001) traces the political through every aspect of its development. Virtually from its onset the colonial project was opposed and not just by the colonized, but at home, from within the compass of the colonizing powers. Anti-colonial theory - symbiotic with postcolonial theory Young avers - was articulated along three trajectories: the humanitarian, the liberal and the Marxist. As he points out, it is fallacious to represent nineteenth-century Europe as lacking in self-criticism and with an unremittingly hegemonic imperialistic impulse. The empire was contested from the beginning, as far back as Bartoleme de Las Casa's anti-colonial tract in 1542 (Young, 2001: 75) and elsewhere throughout the colonial era (Porter, 1968) and beyond.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:40:39 AEDT ]]>