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descolonização; decolonialização

English translation: decolonization; break from colonization/delinking

21:39 Oct 6, 2020
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Coloniality
Portuguese term or phrase: descolonização; decolonialização
This is a tricky one. The source text is making a specific distinction between two words - descolonialização and decolonialização.
They both would translate as decolonialization but how to convey the separate ideas with only one English translation available?
It's academic theory.

Example sentence: Faz-se necessário distinguir a diferença entre descolonização e decolonização segundo o pensamento decolonial
Anthony OSullivan
Portugal
English translation:decolonization; break from colonization/delinking
Explanation:
Delinking | Request PDF - ResearchGatewww.researchgate.net › 233477851_Delinking
This break from coloniality and colonization, aptly termed "delinking" (Mignolo, 2007) , refers to a process of unlearning the associated dispositions, orientations, ...
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:35
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4 +1decolonization; break from colonization/delinking
liz askew
3decolonization; gaining of independence
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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decolonization; gaining of independence


Explanation:
https://www.yourdictionary.com/decolonization

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 20:35
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decolonization; break from colonization/delinking


Explanation:
Delinking | Request PDF - ResearchGatewww.researchgate.net › 233477851_Delinking
This break from coloniality and colonization, aptly termed "delinking" (Mignolo, 2007) , refers to a process of unlearning the associated dispositions, orientations, ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hi Liz, thanks for your reply. I found this comment on the difference between the two words: descolonização é um processo histórico, que ocorreu na América com as independências nós sec. XVIII e XIX, na Asia e na África ao longo do século XX. Decolonial é uma teoria, uma postura academica, epistemológica e política. It's not so much the content that is problematic but rather how to differentiate in the English version. Essentially, it's a linguistic difference that isn't transferable "Des" to 'De" before 'colonial' But I like that delinking idea. I'm going to use it in a footnote I think.


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agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
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Reference comments


23 mins
Reference: see

Reference information:
Full article: The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in ...
www.tandfonline.com › doi › full

5 Jan 2017 — Towards a mythology of Portuguese colonialism and decolonization ... 'A Guerra Colonial e a Descolonização vistas pelas Sondagens de ...




Mudar o discurso: por uma decolonialização da mente ... - Core
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Mudar o discurso: por uma decolonialização da mente docente na Amazônia. Change the speech: by a decolonialization of the mind teacher in the Amazon.

https://www.goethe.de/prj/lat/pt/dis/21784873.html
No entanto, tendo em vista o conceito de literatura universal de Goethe, os estudos de Germanística sabem, a este respeito, que deve ser empreendido um esforço de decolonização, como deve ser feito analogamente com os cânones nacionais: ***nesse contexto, decolonialização significa ter consciência de que hierarquias históricas do poder moldaram a percepção do que é uma literatura relevante e que valores ocidentais ou eurocêntricos, portanto, ainda influenciam a escolha e avaliação de textos***. Este último ponto também se aplica a ideias como a de ‘cidadão global’.


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Note added at 30 mins (2020-10-06 22:09:34 GMT)
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they do indeed have two separate meanings, and are not synonyms

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Note added at 30 mins (2020-10-06 22:10:31 GMT)
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BTW

decolonialization (quoted above) is a translation, but not a bona fide En word, from what I can understand, hence the latter suggestion

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note to reference poster
Asker: Hi Liz, the delinking idea translates as desprendimento apparently. I think this des/decolonial is just one of those cases where academia goes off on a different shoot and the source language accompanies it making literal translation impractical.

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