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social science subjects > sociology > sociology of health, illness and the body > body (sociology) > postcolonialism
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postcolonialism  

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  • Postcolonialism refers to the social order or culture of a colonized society after the end of colonialism, when the former colonizers have left or have granted independence and sovereignty to the native society. A postcolonial order bears the legacies of both the colonial and the precolonial structures, and because modernity was often introduced with colonialism, postcolonialism must also deal with survival in a globalized modernity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Postcolonialism]

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