Legitimizing Empire: Critique of and Advocacy for the Colonial Project

DANĚK, Petr. Legitimizing Empire: Critique of and Advocacy for the Colonial Project. In Approaching the Other: the Four Projects of Western Domination. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2008, p. 45-58, 13 pp. Monographs. ISBN 978-80-244-2046-2.

Basic information

Original name

Legitimizing Empire: Critique of and Advocacy for the Colonial Project

Name in Czech

Legitimizování impéria: kritika a obhajoba koloniálního projektu

Authors

DANĚK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Olomouc, Approaching the Other: the Four Projects of Western Domination, p. 45-58, 13 pp. Monographs, 2008

Publisher

Palacký University

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/08:00025398

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-80-244-2046-2

Keywords in English

colonialism; civilising mission; the idea of progress; representation of the Other; enlightenment; modernity; nationalism

Tags

civilising mission, colonialism, enlightenment, modernity, Nationalism, representation of the Other, the idea of progress

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

Chapter 3 of the book Approaching the Other: the Four Projects of Western Domination. The systematic endeavour of colonialism was criticised since the 15th century. The chapter charts some of the ways of the critique, and discusses the reasonings through which the critique has usually turned into advocacy for the colonial project. Evolution of the idea of progress is traced and its implication for legitimacy of colonial rule is stressed. inspired by the critical analyses of the colonial discourse, provides the discusion of ideas, emanating from Europe, that inspired the ambitious and concerned effort to change the non-European spaces and their societies. Introductory discussion of the terms colonization, colonialism, and imperialism is followed by a discussion of the motives for voyages of exploration. Then several attempts at typology of colonies are presented to support the claim that colonialism was informed beside common assumptions also by politically different discourses. It is illustrated on the example of the British and the French colonial projects. Impact of the European perception of colonized peoples on the evolution of European and Western identity is discussed in the final section of the chapter.

In Czech

Kapitola 3 v knize Approaching the Other: the Four Projects of Western Domination. Systematické úsilí Evropanů kolonizovat cizí společnosti bylo terčem kritiky nejméně od 15. století. Kapitola ukazuje některé směry této kritiky a diskutuje důvody, proč se tato kritika obvykle proměnila v obhajobu koloniálního projektu. Za zvláště významnou je považována myšlenka pokroku, jejíž vznik a význam pro legitimizování kolonialismu je diskutován.

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Links

WA-005-05-Z10, research and development project

Name: Dopady populačního vývoje pro strategii rozvoje regionů