Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another.
That was "an ultimate threat to everything decent in our lives, an ideology and a practice of domination so murderous, so degrading even to those who might survive, that the consequences of its final victory were literally beyond calculation, immeasurably awful" (Walzer 2000: 2000.
An oppressive conceptual framework is one that functions to explain, maintain, and "justify" institutions, relationships and practices of unjustified domination and subordination.
Her interest piqued, she began going to fetish parties, reading BDSM literature, and practicing the art of domination.
Many ecofeminist philosophers explore the ways these shared conceptual roots function in real life to keep intact unjustified institutions and practices of oppression and domination.
Black children are presently under continual assault by well-maintained practices of white racial domination and exclusion, resulting in the marginalization of Africans and African Americans into adulthood.
Collective memory practices are not only linked to sites of domination that attempt to legitimate a given social order, but also to unsanctioned sites of struggle, opposition, and transformation.
Arguably Quality of Care evaluations appear to be subjecting contemporary health care practices and practitioners to a greater level of domination than emancipation.
Translation into English, with applicability to the current conversation: I think it feels permissible for women now to make fun of men and back their fun up with the findings of "science" because there's no history of domination or discrimination behind the practice, or, frankly, any risk of future domination – though many boys' advocates would most likely argue otherwise.
"The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination" - @bellhooks.
