colonialism

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, colonialism has been mentioned in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts, first heard Dec 2025 on MeidasTouch. Explicitly framed as a hinge moment in world history; used to discuss violence, law, religion, and exploitation in Spanish expansion.

Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole, who also claim superiority. While frequently an imperialist project, colonialism functions through differentiating between the targeted land and people, and that of the colonizers. Rather than annexation, this typically culminates in organizing the colonized into colonies sepa