Ecological Imperialism
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23. Ecological Imperialism :
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— a term to describe the ways in which the environments of colonized societies have been physically transformed by the experience of colonial occupation.
According to this thesis, imperialism not only altered the cultural, political and social structures of colonized societies, but also devastated colonial ecologies and traditional subsistence patterns.
