Child's article

" ln the period after decolonization,

it rapidly became apparent (to the newly independent nations, at least) 

that although colonial armies and bureaucracies might have with-

drawn, Western powers were still intent on maintaining maximum 

indirect control over erstwhile colonies, via political, cultural and 

above all economic channels, a phenomenon which became known as 

neo­colonialism."

   This text is important to consider when formulating the definition of post-colonization. Post colonization is very ambiguous in the fact that it can be different for which ever country entering said period.  For example, some countries although decolonized in a sense remain colonies to the country that colonized it in the first place. Their post colonization COULD then be defined as neocolonialism as this period of time that the former colony is subject to the colonial countries whim has an effect on the culture of the people in the former colony. 

    The true importance of this text, is to show the problem of specificity with a word like post-colonialism. Does it mean after decolonization, is it after being colonized for some time, or could it be when there was some noticeable change with the social operation of the colony? The ambiguity of the term makes it difficult to discern yet making the term specific causes problems of inclusion. By this I mean, if the term were to be specific, it would fail to include other examples of what was thought to be post colonization on the grounds that it didn't fit specifically within the definition yet it was OK before the term's definition changed. It is a paradox. This is a theory because it isn't perfect. 

 "In The Political Unconscíous, Fredric jameson high-

lights the Ways in which theories, ideologies and intellectual practices 

contain a Utopian dimension, for instance, dialectical thought as ‘the 

anticipation of the logic of a collectivity which has not yet come into 

being’.16 If even unsavoury ideologies such as Fascism can project a 

Utopian aspect, how much more so sets of theories which are grounded 

in the histories and experiences of the formerly- or still-colonized world, 

and which articulate their aspirations? There is a form of perverseness 

in taking the label ‘post-’ for a state which is not yet fully present, and 

linking it to something which has not fully disappeared, but in many 

Ways that paradoxical in-betweenness precisely characterizes the post-

colonial World."