Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself

Evidence

The truth is that the study of an occupied people, militarily subject to an implacable domination, requires documentation and checking difficult to combine. It is not the soil that is occupied. It is not the ports or the airdromes. French colonialism has settled itself in the very center of the Algerian individual and has undertaken a sustained work of cleanup, of expulsion of self, of rationally pursued mutilation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222 (#expands, via linked claim)

There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction. Under these conditions, the individual’s breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing. It is a combat breathing. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223; Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222; Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619 (+13 more)

Related

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.93)
• Occupation contests the whole country and its history, not territory alone (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.89)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.88)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.86)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation (similarity 0.83)
• Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood. (similarity 0.83)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.83)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223
• Colonial rule’s epistemic anxieties are readable in everyday material objects #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonial commissions treated everyday sensory details as proof of racial character #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation #exemplifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619