Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood.

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it.; Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222; Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s

Related

• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.89)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.87)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.79)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s #exemplifies (0.65)