Critically evaluate: to what, when, where, how and who the term ‘the post-colonial’ had been applied in human geography.
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Critically evaluate: to what, when, where, how and who the term 'the post-colonial' had been applied in human geography. This essay looks to answer a number of important questions about the term 'the post-colonial'. It shall look what it actually means and when the term came about. It will look at who were affected by colonialization and how they were affected, and what has happened to these countries since decolonialization. We will so discuss whether there is such a thing as 'the post-colonial' or if it's just a buzz term made up by geographers. http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/1483/1518969/DIVI445.jpg As you can see from the map above, the majority of the world by the 1900's was colonialized in some shape or form, with the largest empires belonging to the French, the British and the Spanish. Colonialization had occurred for up to 300 years before hand with European countries moving in and out of countries in Asia,...

