One of the most challenging legacies of the colonial empires is its boundaries. “Over a hundred new nations were born during the process of decolonization. Most of these new nations, had not existed at all as nations before colonialism, or they had not existed within the post-colonial border.”(Katz,29)(Marker, Effects of Colonization) According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a border (first used in the 14th century, “bourder”) can be defined as “a line separating one country from another”, or an artificial or natural “boundary line between places” and or spaces. Borders exist either naturally as geographic boundaries, or are man-made as political national boundaries. One of the most debatable issues of today’s modern states is its former colonial boundaries. Its controversy lies in its importance as a key element in the forming, shaping, and fashioning the occupied spaces according to foreign agenda and colonial dogma . One of the aims this thesis focuses on is how Colonial Empires as a dominating “cultural power” (Anderson, 76) plays a pivotal role in the “ordering and bordering of a place” (Anderson,
One of the most challenging legacies of the colonial empires is its boundaries. “Over a hundred new nations were born during the process of decolonization. Most of these new nations, had not existed at all as nations before colonialism, or they had not existed within the post-colonial border.”(Katz,29)(Marker, Effects of Colonization) According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a border (first used in the 14th century, “bourder”) can be defined as “a line separating one country from another”, or an artificial or natural “boundary line between places” and or spaces. Borders exist either naturally as geographic boundaries, or are man-made as political national boundaries. One of the most debatable issues of today’s modern states is its former colonial boundaries. Its controversy lies in its importance as a key element in the forming, shaping, and fashioning the occupied spaces according to foreign agenda and colonial dogma . One of the aims this thesis focuses on is how Colonial Empires as a dominating “cultural power” (Anderson, 76) plays a pivotal role in the “ordering and bordering of a place” (Anderson,