Colonial displacement severs the naturalistic link between birthplace and cultural identity.

Evidence

I had to confront the problem of trying to understand what Caribbean culture was and what my relationship was to it. I put it that way because my relationship to it, in terms of a naturalistic logic—“He was born here, so he must be a Caribbean intellectual”—does not work. My relationship to the Caribbean was one of dislocation, of displacement, literally and figuratively. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1191

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the colonial subject’s relationship to home culture as dislocation, not natural belonging — a key early formulation of identity-as-difference.
• XREF: Connects to Edward Said’s ‘out of place’ and Orientalism; also anticipates Hall’s encoding/decoding and identity-as-becoming framework used in Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Decolonization and reinhabitation become twin mutually-implied goals of place pedagogy. — David A. Gruenewald, The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical…, 85; Plant communities mirror the cultural displacement of their peoples — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 957; An immigrant’s colonial memory dissolves the self-enclosed English pastoral idyll. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 756 (+1 more)