Altering Postcolonial Powers

• Main Author: Canuday, Jose Jowel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol9/iss1/1; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/socialtransformations/article/1116/viewcontent/ST_209.1_201_20Editorial_20__20Canuday.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: The postcolonial condition has brought forth a new array of relations between the holders of power and their subjects. As old arrangements shift between nations and among agents within states and social structures, power relations are changing in ways that disperse but also recalibrate the centers of authority and the dispositions of the marginalized. In a multipolarizing world, postcolonial sociopolitical orders have taken heterogenous forms. The established constitution of postcolonial relations is being altered wherein the dominant and the subaltern saw their respective positions recast either to their advantage or greater peril. While far from being upended, those who dominate find themselves ceding spaces of power with ascendant forces. By implication, these new dispositions opened opportunities for the subaltern to subvert, reimagine, question, and reframe preexisting power relations.