Historical colonialism had four structural components that define its form

Evidence

There were four key components to historical colonialism: the appropriation of resources; the evolution of highly unequal social and economic relations that secured resource appropriation (including slavery and other forms of forced labor as well as unequal trading relations); a massively unequal global distribution of the benefits of resource appropriation; and the spread of ideologies to make sense of all this (for example, the reframing of colonial appropriation as the release of “natural” resources, the government of “inferior” peoples, and the bringing of “civilization” to the world). — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 64

Categorization

• DEFINE: This four-part schema (appropriation, unequal relations, unequal distribution, legitimating ideology) is the definitional backbone that the data-colonialism analogy will be judged against.
• XREF: connects to: Historical colonialism had four structural components that data colonialism may replicate. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 64; Colonialism operated through four sovereign units, not just the metropole; Colonial powers eviscerated indigenous central domains and their internal dynamics (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Historical colonialism had four structural components that data colonialism may replicate. #expands (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 64
• Colonialism operated through four sovereign units, not just the metropole #expands (0.82)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. #qualifies (0.78)
• Colonial powers eviscerated indigenous central domains and their internal dynamics #expands (0.75)