Editing Colonialism (section)

=== Contemporary ===
While colonies of contiguous empires<ref>Forsyth, James. A history of the peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1994.</ref> have been historically excluded, they can be seen as colonies.<ref name="Gilmartin2009">{{Cite book |last=Gilmartin |first=Mary |title=Key Concepts in Political Geography |year=2009 |isbn=9781412946728 |editor-last=Gallaher |editor-first=Carolyn |pages=115–123 |chapter=Colonialism/Imperialism |doi=10.4135/9781446279496.n13 |editor-last2=Dahlman |editor-first2=Carl |editor-last3=Gilmartin |editor-first3=Mary |editor-last4=Mountz |editor-first4=Alison |editor-last5=Shirlow |editor-first5=Peter |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpBJclVnVdQC&pg=PA115}}</ref>
Contemporary expansion of colonies is seen by some in case of [[Russian imperialism]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 September 2022 |title=So-called referenda in Russian-controlled Ukraine 'cannot be regarded as legal': UN political affairs chief |work=UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1128161 |url-status=live |access-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928072533/https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1128161 |archive-date=28 September 2022}}</ref> and [[Chinese imperialism]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Alessio |first1=Dominic |last2=Renfro |first2=Wesley |date=1 August 2022 |title=Building empires litorally in the South China Sea: artificial islands and contesting definitions of imperialism |journal=International Politics |language=en |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=687–706 |doi=10.1057/s41311-021-00328-x |issn=1740-3898 |s2cid=240567127}}</ref> There is also ongoing debate in academia about [[Zionism as settler colonialism]].