Prasenjit Duara is Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies at Duke University and former President of the Association for Asian Studies. He is the author of Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then (Rewriting Histories).
What motivated imperialist domination and colonization in Asia? What justified colonialism and imperialism in the region?
So, what motivated imperialist domination? By that, you probably mean specifically European imperialist domination. It began apparently with the Crusades. Europeans soldiers wanted to access more directly the trade of Asian goods, coming from South Asia, East Asia and different parts of West Asia, which they found very useful and [...]
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Translation:
The term decolonization refers to the process by which the territories subjected to the colonial powers manage to put an end to their status as a colony. This process, which involves the elimination of colonial practice, is one of the most important recent phenomena on a global level, since it has led to the liberation of territories that for centuries had been under the control of colonial powers and this has profoundly transformed the global political map. The issue of decolonization is returning to a position of paramount importance in political processes today. In addition to providing some indications on the places in which such a discourse has become relevant, this article also explores the deep meaning, and in particular, the epistemic and the theoretician, of the concept of decolonization.