Decolonization

3 Units

The United States of America is a society that decolonized against British empire and that has remained colonialist with respect to Native Americans. Decolonization, the process of returning sovereignty to societies that have been colonized, remains at the heart of modern political processes into this day and age. Yet decolonization's philosophical roots are deeper than modernity and its implications are in some respects planetary. In this course, we embed modern decolonization within the long history of settlement dating to the end of Paleolithic society and discuss implications for planetary justice heading into our ecological century. Counts as a Communication Intensive course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.