#colonialextraction - Twitter Hashtag

Amit Sinha @amitdel1964

5 days ago

The Vanity That Starved a Region The Victoria Memorial cost £1.05M (~₹33,000 crore today) —coerced from princes & salt taxes. That sum, redirected to docks & steelworks, could have turbocharged Bengal’s GDP 40–60% by 1947, ... #ColonialExtraction

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@MutemiWaKiama

about 1 year ago

What we call "Corruption" = #ColonialExtraction . Legitimate business by state mandarins of the African colonial extraction state. #EchoesOfColonialism #Colonialism #neocolonialism #UtuNaUzalendoKE

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Chelsey Purdy @chelsey_purdy

over 3 years ago

Do you ever ask Indigenous people or communities how you can help them? Or do you only ask them to help you and do things for you? Not often I see or experience the first, but I experience the latter consistently in academic spaces #ColonialExtraction #SlowDown

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Indu Viswanathan @indumathi37

over 3 years ago

🔥 Read this thread (and the full book review). Takes to task this self-indulgent European collector who hoards sacred Himalayan art to feed his narcissistic whimsy. #exotification #colonialextraction #europeanhubris #repatriate

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