Colonialism operates through the twin mechanisms of appropriation and extraction of value.
Evidence
Colonialism, in its old and new forms, operates through the dispossession of resources. This dispossession happens through the appropriation of things that belong to someone else and through the extraction of value from the appropriated resources. By doing this, the natural and the social worlds are implicated in new modes of production, transformed into factors in ever-changing capitalist cycles of production. Put differently, appropriation and extraction convert life, particularly human life, into profit centers for capitalism. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 283
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes the two-part analytical mechanism (appropriation then extraction) that frames the book’s core argument from here on.
- XREF: connects to: Colonialism and capitalism form two sides of one continuous dispossession process. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 280; Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination.; Colonial property law and penal law were imposed together as twin domination tools. (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination.
#expands(0.80) - Colonialism operates through people and is not identical with global capitalism
#qualifies(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3432 - Colonial property law and penal law were imposed together as twin domination tools.
#exemplifies(0.75)