Impact Of Post Colonialism

1.0 Introduction

This research paper seeks to analytically introduce Post-colonialism as an International Political Economy (IPE) theory from a Global Governance perspective. Post-colonialism, which is sometimes referred to as post-colonial studies or post-colonial theory is a contemporary academic discourse. Post-colonialism analyses the colonial experiences and also look into the viewpoint of how the colonial powers and the colonies see each other and also how they interact. The "post" suggests that the discipline is forward-looking, towards a world that has actually moved beyond the details of colonialism. Mostly, literatures from colonised nations are both emotional and political and this paper will focus much on the viewpoint from the

Colonialism created cultural problem as colonial powers forced the colonies to adapt and accept a totally new culture (Eurocentric) as the best way of life in the name of civilisation and also created an identity problem. Post-colonialism is the academic field that deals with these problems and maintains a continual analysis from both points of view.

1.1 Some definitions of post-colonialism

Post-colonialism as a social science field also faces the problem of not having a universally accepted definition. But some scholars have come up with helpful definitions that provide assistance in understanding the subject.

Post-colonialism is defined in anthropology as the relationship that exist between European countries (colonisers) and subjects they colonized and once had dominion over.

Post-colonialism also refers to the era after colonisation. The concern is then raised, after the end of whose colonisation? after the end of which colonial empire? (Peter Childs and R.J Patrick Williams).

Post-colonialism is the study of the inheritance of the period of European, and lately American, direct global control, which roughly ended in the mid-20th century. These controls left behind political, cultural, and psychological effects on both the colonies and the

Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most important figures in contemporary field of post-colonialism. He has developed a number of key concepts in the field 's neologisms, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence. His concepts focus and explains how the colonised resisted the control of their colonial powers. Bhabha has encouraged a rigorous rethinking of nationalism, representation, and resistance that above all stresses the "ambivalence" or "hybridity" that characterizes the site of colonial contestation--a "liminal" space in which cultural differences articulate and, as Bhabha argues, actually produce imagined "constructions" of cultural and national identity (Benjamin Graves: 1998).

Another key contributor is Frantz Fanon. He is one of the earliest writers linked to post-colonialism. Fanon examined the nature of colonialism and those dominated by it in his book “The Wretched of the Earth”. He emphasised that colonialism is the source of violence and his interpretation of the systematic relationship between colonialism and its efforts to refute "all attributes of humanity" to the colonies, formed the foundation for related critiques of colonial and postcolonial systems.

2.0 Viewpoint of the