colonial experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcolonialandexperience
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colonial
adjective
uk/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/us/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofcolonialandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Models which do allow for the fluid dynamism of identity and interaction precipitated by thecolonialexperienceprovide an alternative of real social relevance.
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Nevertheless, broad generalizations can be identified in the terrain of basic tropes, conceptual categories, and colonial discourses that emerge from thecolonialexperience.
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Despite its centrality to thecolonialexperiencethroughout the continent, the history of the prison has been surprisingly neglected.
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This is however, not to assert that allcolonialexperienceand historical processes and transformations across societies and cultures were the same.
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What he is less inclined to emphasize is the resentment that tradition had fostered during the almost two centuries ofcolonialexperience.
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Almost all of the following papers do, at least, share the sense of the enduring significance of thecolonialexperience.
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Colonialexperiencemade human rights a non-issue after independence.
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Precisely by not centring, in this way, either upon actualcolonialexperiencenor indeed on colonial practices in a narrow sense, the volume conveys important insights.
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Theircolonialexperiencewould be most valuable in those areas, because at the present moment they are rapidly becoming derelict.
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Should not something be done to amend this unfortunatecolonialexperience?
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The present generation in this country do not have acolonialexperiencein the region, so we may be able to contribute to its rebuilding.
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We have the insight of ourcolonialexperience.
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Itscolonialexperiencewas crude and exploitative.
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The novel deals sensitively with subjects such as thecolonialexperience, prejudice and miscegenation.
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Rather, they were the products of a complex, regionally differentiated interaction between metropolitan inheritance andcolonialexperience.
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