Colonial power divided its methods between suppressing bodies and tutoring minds

Evidence

In his book Recognizing Islam, Michael Gilsenan cites from the report of a French military officer in Algeria, on an insurrection put down by his troops in 1845–46. To establish political authority over a population, wrote the officer, there are two modes, one of suppression and one of tutoring. The latter is long-term and works upon the mind, the former works upon the body and must come first. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 317

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s discipline of body/mind and to the body-mind duality theme running through Mitchell’s whole argument. — connects to: Colonial-era nationalists already turned European critical methods against their tutors — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 863