Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted

Evidence

Initially subjective, the breaches made in colonialism are the result of a victory of the colonized over their old fear and over the atmosphere of despair distilled day after day by a colonialism that has incrusted itself with the prospect of enduring forever. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 426; Colonial emotional attributions constructed the social hierarchies they claimed to describe; Colonial training schemes aimed to shape sentiments and restrict desires (+37 more)

Related

• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial authorities aimed to manage subjects’ aspirations as a political necessity (similarity 0.86)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial regimes deliberately cultivated habits and redirected sentiments, a neglected topic. (similarity 0.84)
• Philosophical debates about reason versus passion shaped colonial political decisions. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial authorities understood that regime viability depended on managing sentiment contagion (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #complicates (0.60)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #qualifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Scholars have treated colonial sentiment as ornament rather than substance of rule #corroborates (0.50)