The document discusses colonialism and neocolonialism, defining them as power dynamics where dominant nations exert control over less powerful ones. It highlights historical perspectives on imperialism, critiques Eurocentric definitions, and examines the implications of economic and cultural domination by developed nations over the developing world. Key figures like Vo Nguyen Giap and critiques from various economists underscore the ongoing impact of these colonial practices.

1. Colonialism & Neocolonialism Dr. Christopher S. Rice

4. “ The act is virtuous, the exercise invigorating, and the result often extremely profitable.” Winston Churchill

5. White Man’s Burden

7. “ Take up the White Man’s burden - Send out the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wild - Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child” Rudyard Kipling, “White Man’s Burden”

8. Non-Western Perspective

9. Imperialism as a progressive force?

11. The “C-word”

12. “ The Americans were on the side of the colonialist - the American generals are not very good students of history. Dien Bien Phu paved the way for us to defeat not only the French but later the Americans and now to defend our country against the Chinese.” Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general

13. “ Dien Bien Phu was the bell that tolled the twilight of colonialism.” Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general

14. So, what IS colonialism?

15. Colonialism A relationship in which a group of people in one country is subject to the authority of the people of another country.

16. Neocolonialism The process by which rich, powerful, developed states use economic, political or other informal means to exert pressure on poor, less-powerful underdeveloped states.

17. Dependent community can be made up of: Indigenous people Immigrants Combination of the two

19. Imperialism The act of acquiring or holding colonies or dependencies.

20. Problems with these definitions: Eurocentric State-Centered Dependent or Dominated?: apolitical, “neutral” terminology

21. “ The developed nations have discovered for themselves a new mission - to help the Third World advance along the road to development…which is nothing more than the road on which the West has guided the rest of humanity for several centuries.” Francois Partant (1982) French development economist

22. “ Development is just a new word for what the Marxists called imperialism and what we can loosely refer to as colonialism - a more familiar and less loaded term.” Edward Goldsmith

23. Domination (cc) 2006 Flickr user Señor Codo

24. “ We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.” Cecil Rhodes English businessman and colonialist

25. Colonialism At once the process and condition of political, economic, social, technological, environmental domination, direct or indirect, of one culture (generally, the non-Western world) by another (generally, the Western world).

26. Global Expansion 1492-1776

27. Guns, Germs and Crosses

29. Chartered Trading Companies Economic institutions given power to establish order and rule in order to create profitable commercial relations.

30. British Dominance 1776-1870

31. BUY LOCAL!

32. The “New” Imperialism 1870-1914

33. Berlin Conference of 1885

34. Growth of U.S. Imperialism Chinese “Open Door” Policy Mexican War of 1845 Spanish-American War (1898) Annexation of Sandwich Islands (Hawai’I) - 1898

35. Aspects of Imperialism Culture Economy

36. Language

37. HEGEMONY

38. Christianity Siege engine of the colonizers? Source: southafricamission.com

40. Capitalism vs. Traditional (Peasant) Economies

41. Structuralist School

42. Neocolonialism The process by which Multinational and Transnational Corporations, with or without the aid of rich & powerful Western states and/or super-governmental organizations, use direct or indirect means to dominate non-Western states, societies and/or cultures politically, socially, economically, technologically, and culturally