Colonial spatial control derives its strength from flexibility, not rigidity

Evidence

In stirring up these men and women, colonialism has regrouped them beneath a single sign. Equally victims of the same tyranny, simultaneously identifying a single enemy, this physically dispersed people is realizing its unity and founding in suffering a spiritual community which constitutes the most solid bastion of the Algerian Revolution. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 391 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial common sense is reproduced through habitual alignment with existing forces — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 235; Colonial action is entangled in self-concealing contradictory motives — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 616; Colonial rule operated through habit-taking into existing conventions and commonsense (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial fragmentation paradoxically forges the unity that drives revolution #complicates (0.71) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 391