Recolonization is a process in which former or new colonizing powers retain influence over former colonies in respects which effectively replicate or reproduce the conditions for the former colony which existed under direct colonialism, especially in instances in which the former colony is now an independent nation state. Recolonization inherently references the failure or incomplete nature of decolonization and is often used to reference the conditions of former colonies in the Global South, many of which are now officially independent and sovereign nations yet are still subjugated to former colonial powers in the Global North by global capitalism, which maintains continued resource extraction and military control (e.g. counter-revolutionary forces and regime changes) in former colonies with the explicit purpose of serving and benefiting the interests of the former or new colonizing powers.[1][2][3] The term has been compared to neocolonialism, although has been distinguished as a more powerful metaphor regarding the continued influence of colonial powers over former colonies.[2]
regarding the usage of the term recolonization following Mazrui's publication of a newspaper article entitled "Recolonization or Self-colonization? Decaying...
Pioneer species are resilient species that are the first to colonize barren environments, or to repopulate disrupted biodiverse steady-state ecosystems...
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, Korean gray whale, or California gray whale...
Kleinschmit, J.; Roldan-Ruiz, I.; Gladieux, P. (April 2013). "Postglacial recolonization history of the European crabapple ( Malus sylvestris M ill.), a wild...
Nancowry and Kamorta, after which von Scherzer began promoting the idea of recolonization; the Austrian government ruled against it. If von Scherzer's idea had...
The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting...
Martinez-Cabrera; et al. (2001). "A signal, from human mtDNA, of postglacial recolonization in Europe". American Journal of Human Genetics. 69 (4): 844–52. doi:10...
walking) to plant and animal habitats, creating opportunities for recolonization and thus favoring young ecosystems with r-selected species dominant...
"Germination and seedling growth of bog plants in relation to the recolonization of milled peatlands". Plant Ecology. 169: 71–84. doi:10.1023/A:1026258114901...
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the two types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with the other type being Crohn's disease. It is a long-term condition...
population declines have been arrested since the 1970s. This has fostered recolonization and reintroduction in parts of its former range as a result of legal...
Basin in Belarus, and the Voronezh river in Russia. The beaver has since recolonized parts of its former range, aided by conservation policies and reintroductions...
Athlone Press, London. Rose C. I., Hawksworth D. L. (1981). "Lichen recolonization in London's cleaner air". Nature. 289 (5795): 289–292. Bibcode:1981Natur...
animal similar to today's sea snakes. In the Late Cretaceous, snakes recolonized land, and continued to diversify into today's snakes. Fossilized snake...
further claimed that "this postcolonial (re)turn is actually more a recolonization than a decolonization of the capitalist Cantonese city by the mainland...
until conditions improve; they then either form completely new sponges or recolonize the skeletons of their parents.: 120–127 In most sponges, an internal...
conflicts. He then declared that the United States would not accept the recolonization of any country by its former European master, though he also avowed...
in Europe." Once states are recognized as sovereign, they are rarely recolonized, merged, or dissolved. Today, no state is sovereign in the sense they...
In the 1940s, the gray wolf was nearly eradicated from the Southern Rockies. The species naturally expanded into habitats in Colorado they occupied prior...
A.; Fortin, C.; Kyle, C.J. (2013). "Phylogeography and post-glacial recolonization in wolverines (Gulo gulo) from across their circumpolar distribution"...
in 1969 as "a population of populations which go extinct locally and recolonize".: 105 Metapopulation ecology is another statistical approach that is...
extirpated from eastern North America, aside from Florida, but they may be recolonizing their former range and isolated populations have been documented east...
observed in the first half of the 1990s. Recent sightings indicate a recolonization effort from the nearby mainland. Wild boars were exterminated after...
1930s saw the last wild wolf in the state shot in 1945. A wolf pack recolonized Moffat County, Colorado in northwestern Colorado in 2019. Cattle farmers...
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