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Revision as of 00:45, 5 December 2007
Postcolonialism is a pervasive concept in Columbia academics, and runs deep in many humanities professors' work here. It includes, basically, theories, concepts, ideas, and practices that can be said to expose or undermine hierarchies of power that existed during, or persist from, the period of European and Western colonialism.
Important developments in this field made by Columbia professors include Edward Said's concept of Orientalism and Gayatri Spivak's Subalternism.
Other Columbia professors who can be described as working in a postcolonial milieu include:
