A jednak kolonializm. Uwagi epistemologiczne

Ewa THOMPSON Rice University (Houston) It’s colonialism, after all! Some epistemological remarks The author argues that colonialism in non-Germanic Central Europe has its own unique place in the spectrum of colonialism-as-such, and that it has not been sufficiently theorised. To advance its theoretical articulation it is necessary to revise the standard definition of colonialism present in the writings of contemporary Western academic researchers, as well as avoid a reduction of c o l o n i a l i s m to d e p e n d e n c e as proposed by some Polish researchers. The metropolis-subaltern relationship in Central Europe was constructed differently than in Asia or Africa. In the postcolonial period, the crucial relationship in Central Europe has been that between the s u b s t i t u t e h e g e m o n and t h e p o s t c o l o n i a l s u b a l t e r n, and acknowledgment of this relationship is missing in the concept of d e p e n d e n c e as defined by certain Polish scholars.