This chapter presents commonly used terms in the study of postcolonialism. The terms listed begin with the alphabet “G”. Detailed explanation is provided for several terms, including globe, geography and globalization. Each entry includes the origin of the term; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary‐cultural texts. The geography of the world was part of the English curriculum through the 19th century, and gave the school child a sense of the globe. The slave trade which came in for attention in the late 18th and early 19th centuries from the abolitionists engendered a humanitarian geography of the world. The globe helped the West to fantasize the limits of the empire as well as the universality of humans. Globalization for the postcolonial nation is seen as undermining the project of decolonization.