Open AccessKolonialisme as historiese proses
Author(s) -
Pieter De Klerk
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
koers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.166
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2304-8557
pISSN - 0023-270X
DOI - 10.4102/koers.v53i4.890
Subject(s) - colonialism , politics , preamble , process (computing) , colonization , relation (database) , resistance (ecology) , history , political economy , political science , sociology , law , computer science , archaeology , ecology , computer network , channel (broadcasting) , database , operating system , biology
In this article the importance of viewing colonialism as a historical process is discussed. Colonialism as a historical process has certain general phases and features , as well as general causes and effects . The first phase can be called the preamble to colonization , subsequent to which the establishment of a colonial structure takes place . During the existence of this structure , which has certain general political, economic and social features , processes of change occur with in the colonial society . Which in m any cases ultimately lead to the removal o r disappearance o f the colonial structure . Usually processes of integration and of conflict and resistance are both present, but in some cases the first process and in some the other process is the dominating one . After the colonial structure has come to an end , the last phase or aftermath of the colonial process follows