Colonies are structural extensions of the modern state’s essence, not attachments

Evidence

The colonies, I am in effect arguing, in line with Foucault’s work on Europe, are the structural extension of the modern state’s structure, rather than a mere attachment to it, an appendage that is accidental or contingent to it, but indeed one that is of its essence. When Great Britain dropped India in 1947, it was not doing anything different than when Russia relinquished its southern and western republics and oblasts upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nor would the secession of Quebec from Canada after the referendum in 1995 have violated this logic (had it occurred), however unilateral it might have been. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 413 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonies are essential structural extensions of the modern state — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 413; Colonialism constitutes modernity itself rather than merely deriving from it — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 44; Modernity is a contested imperial project rather than a natural achieved state — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 401 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonies are essential structural extensions of the modern state #corroborates (0.99) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 413