Colonial method required capturing bodies before minds

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial power divided its methods between suppressing bodies and tutoring minds — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 317; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178; Colonial training schemes aimed to shape sentiments and restrict desires

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #complicates (0.76) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178