Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes

Evidence

It was the colonialist’s frenzy to unveil the Algerian woman, it was his gamble on winning the battle of the veil at whatever cost, that were to provoke the native’s bristling resistance. The deliberately aggressive intentions of the colonialist with respect to the haïk gave a new life to this dead element of the Algerian cultural stock—dead because stabilized, without any progressive change in form or color. We here recognize one of the laws of the psychology of colonization. In an initial phase, it is the action, the plans of the occupier that determine the centers of resistance around which a people’s will to survive becomes organized. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 164

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates a ‘law of the psychology of colonization’ — the occupier’s offensive itself creates the centers of native resistance.
• XREF: connects to: Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it; Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial; Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (+9 more)

Related

• Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it (similarity 0.95)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.84)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle (similarity 0.84)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized civilians relied on defiant inner conviction against traumatizing French press (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165
• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture #contradicts (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 831
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421