Occupation contests the whole country and its history, not territory alone

Evidence

There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction. Under these conditions, the individual’s breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing. It is a combat breathing. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The structures built, the port facilities, the airdromes, the prohibition of the Arab language, often gave the impression that the enemy committed himself, compromised himself, half lost himself in his prey, precisely in order to make any future break, any separation, impossible. Every manifestation of the French presence expressed a continuous rooting in time and in the Algerian future, and could always be read as a token of an indefinite oppression. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223; Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself; Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619

Related

• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life (similarity 0.93)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation (similarity 0.85)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.82)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial infrastructure and language prohibition were built to foreclose any future separation (similarity 0.79)
• French colonialism built permanent structures assuming endless occupation (similarity 0.79)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.79)
• US history centers fundamentally on control and commodification of land (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself #expands (0.85)
• Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619