Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This point resonates with Obioma Nnaemeka’s theory of internally induced patriarchal structures where she argues that the manner in which African women struggled with issues of gender oppression in the pre-colonial era was replicated during post-colonialism. Her postulation centres on the fluidity of gender relations and gender oppression across the boundaries of time and space as “ever evolving, always contaminated and contested, mutually creating and recreating each other”. This position insinuates that gender oppression is natural, taking it away from the material conditions that in reality produce, catalyse and reproduce gender relations and gender oppression. For example, the historical realities of patriarchal hierarchies of power, which were catalysed by the violent process of colonialism and the designed strategy of colonial capital appropriation that thrived on a divide-and-rule scheme. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial emotional attributions constructed the social hierarchies they claimed to describe; Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism.; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (+6 more)

Related

• Gender oppression is naturalized, masking its colonial material origins (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.85)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial pressures shaped Caribbean gender relations and blocked feminism as a spiritual force (similarity 0.83)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.83)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. #expands (0.85)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Gender oppression is naturalized, masking its colonial material origins #corroborates (0.82) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969
• Colonial emotional attributions constructed the social hierarchies they claimed to describe #corroborates (0.78)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.72) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347