# Self-colonisation The process by which the elites of Europe's semi-peripheral societies absorbed imagined Western patterns voluntarily, treating the West as a kind of "civilisational superego", the one authority able to grant recognition (Kiossev, 2011, quoted in Switala & Majewski, 2023, p. 146). *See also* [[Self-orientalisation]]. ## References - Kiossev, A. (2011). The self-colonizing metaphor. *Atlas of Transformation*. http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/html/s/self-colonization/the-self-colonizing-metaphor-alexander-kiossev.html - Switala, A., & Majewski, P. (2023). The "Happy Island" of Polish music education: Self-orientalization of educational philosophies in post-Soviet Europe. In D. G. Hebert (Ed.), *Comparative and decolonial studies in philosophy of education* (pp. 141–162). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26221-0_9