While it is constantly emphasized as an indisputable reality that the West represents what is true, beautiful, moral and normatively all positive values, the belief that Eastern societies represent the opposite of Western values is tried to be reinforced. This opposition has manifested itself in a wide range of fields ranging from art to literature, science and social sciences for a significant part of human history, while tendencies and efforts that could offer alternative explanations have been blocked. Thus, it was aimed to eliminate the questioning elements that might emerge against the new imperialist and colonialist world politics that was shaped after the Second World War and developed until today. By claiming that Western civilization was the only path to be followed for economic, social and cultural development, it was tried to dictate that all humanity should follow the same path.
While the long-standing problems of justice, equality and fair distribution of wealth are expected to decrease with the impact of globalization, they tend to increase. It is thought that this negative process, which leads to the development of a network of self-interested, conflictual and insecure relations, can be explained from a post-colonial critical perspective in the context of cause and effect.
The postcolonial perspective can contribute to both the correct reading of the past and the preparation of alternative future designs by producing answers to systems that see the Western-centered production of science, politics and philosophy of life as the only and alternative source. Postcolonial studies can create a basis for the acceptance of alternative perspectives by saving knowledge production from being uniform. In today's world, where Turkey, due to its regional and global geopolitical importance, has moved from being a country that produces answers to the international agenda to being an agenda-setter, PAMER-based studies are of cultural and social importance as well as academic value.