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to decolonize

to decolonize

1 7.5
To remove ideas and practices left by foreign rule in schools and museums
  • verb
  • /ˌdiːˈkɒlənaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : descolonizar
  • Activists are working to decolonize historical narratives in textbooks to better represent Indigenous voices.
  • decolonizing archaeology
  • decolonizing practice
  • decolonizing methodology

Because they're trying to decolonize the curriculum.

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Examples

  • People talk to me about decolonizing museums and universities.

  • I am currently reading a book on decolonizing global health.

  • So my school made it his goal to decolonize the curriculum.

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  • Indigenous action to decolonize archaeology.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Because they're trying to decolonize the curriculum.

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  • However, it is imperative to recognize that to Indigenize television requires one to first decolonize their viewing.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Decolonizing the way Navajos have done things to this point is integral to changing the government structure.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Efforts to move the field toward a decolonizing practice are one of Indigenous archaeology's critical endeavors.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Indigenous archaeology is thus part of a wider project of decolonizing and democratizing knowledge production in archaeology and the social sciences more broadly.

    Academic text (2005)

  • So she's going to get a doctorate who's gone back to Bolivia to decolonise museums in Bolivia.

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Antonyms

to colonialize
7.8

To take control of a land and its people by a foreign country

How Decolonized

to decolonize
  • Specialized
1 7.5
to challenge
  • Formal
552 4.3
to question
777 3.5
to preserve
496 3.4

Surface Forms

decolonize infinitive
decolonized past
decolonized past participle
decolonizing present participle
decolonizes third person singular

Morphology

decolonize = colonize (semi-transparent) = de + colonize + de

Morphologically formed by 'de-' + 'colonize'; the formation is regular, though the application to ideas/institutions is an extended, more abstract use.

Etymology

Decolonize also applies to ideas and institutions. It uses de- 'remove' and colonial or colony 'rule by another country', so to decolonize a curriculum, museum, or research method is to remove colonial ideas and make space for local voices and histories.