Colonial frontiers served as laboratories for Europeans to build disciplinary states

Evidence

By contrast, European colonialism, the Dutch included, was intrusive and penetrating to a degree that aimed to, and did, change the very constitution of the colonized subject, to fashion it in new ways, to act on its body through a system of juridicality, to discipline it, to subjugate it into docility, just as European governmentality had performed its own subjects at home. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 256 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authorities adapted European discipline institutions to perceived local sensitivities — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 790; European states were deeply shaped by their colonial experiences — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 825; Colonial disciplinary machinery operated on European bodies before colonized ones — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 200 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• European colonialism reshaped colonized subjects through the same discipline applied at home #complicates (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 256
• The colonial state was equipped to police natives but not wayward Europeans #complicates (0.74)