Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation

Evidence

The structures built, the port facilities, the airdromes, the prohibition of the Arab language, often gave the impression that the enemy committed himself, compromised himself, half lost himself in his prey, precisely in order to make any future break, any separation, impossible. Every manifestation of the French presence expressed a continuous rooting in time and in the Algerian future, and could always be read as a token of an indefinite oppression. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how settler-colonial permanence strategies appear across colonial contexts, e.g. the ‘rooting in time’ echoed in later settler-colonial studies (Wolfe, Veracini). — connects to: Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself; French colonialism built permanent structures assuming endless occupation; Occupation contests the whole country and its history, not territory alone (+8 more)

Related

• French colonialism built permanent structures assuming endless occupation (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial infrastructure and language prohibition were built to foreclose any future separation (similarity 0.92)
• Occupation contests the whole country and its history, not territory alone (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.80)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• European participation in the rebellion collapsed the colonial legal distinction #qualifies (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 207