Colonial History

The Cost of a Candle – Part 1: The Logistics of Extermination

5 July 2024·1121 words·6 mins

History and Critical Analysis Colonial History Corporate Responsibility Economic Ethics Global Trade Dutch East India Company Colonialism Historical Case Studies Military and Logistics Trade and Supply Chains Policy and Critique

Analyzing the direct military violence used to secure global spice monopolies in Banda and Ambon.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic

11 February 2023·411 words·2 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

A four-part examination of how unaccountable power, racial dehumanization, settler colonial logic, and economic imperatives combined to produce systematic violence across five centuries of colonial history.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 4: The Pattern Persists

11 February 2023·2176 words·11 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How the four-factor framework illuminates the ongoing settler colonial project in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the present.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 3: The Corporation as Killing Machine

11 February 2023·1756 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How the Belgian Congo under King Leopold II demonstrated the fusion of unaccountable corporate power with extractive economics, causing an estimated 10 million deaths.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 2: Settler Logic and the Machinery of Erasure

11 February 2023·1803 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How North American and French Algerian settler colonialism transformed racial dehumanization into systematic policies of expulsion and elimination.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 1: The Blueprint Emerges in Banda

11 February 2023·1801 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How the Dutch East India Company’s 1621 massacre on the Banda Islands brought together all four factors for the first time, creating a template for colonial violence that would repeat across centuries.

The Invisible Empire - Part 1: Planting the Standard in the Psyche

3 February 2022·1447 words·7 mins

History and Critical Analysis Education Language Colonial History Identity Psychology Cultural Imperialism Historical Case Studies Policy and Critique Social Dynamics Development and Inequality

Examining how colonial powers systematically colonized the mind through education, language, culture, and pseudo-scientific racism.