Postcolonial democracies risk homegrown repressions after breaking with imposed rule

Evidence

The democracy of determination, determined and desiderative, seeks to break from a democracy of imposed domination, though nothing guarantees there won’t be homegrown repressions in the wake of such a break and its attendant articulations. … Such democracies – in post-apartheid South Africa, if a little uncertainly, more unevenly in the likes of Brazil, and from moment to lurching, destructive and sometimes self-destructive moment in Palestine pushing to break from the grip of Israel’s making – seek to break as much with the conceptual architecture (in Eyal Weizman’s sense in Hollow Land) of debilitating racial characterization as they do with the institutional political edifices built in their name. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 711

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the tension in ‘Things Fall Apart’ where the Igbo break from colonial domination only to find internal repressions and rigidities; also parallels Achebe’s portrayal of self-willing collective engagement. — connects to: Postcolonial governments silenced dissent while claiming media democratization, with Western backing — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 315; Authoritarian and democratic regimes differ mainly in emphasis on anticipatory versus responsive repression — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 442
• DEFINE: Names Weizman’s ‘conceptual architecture’ concept from Hollow Land as a framework for understanding racial characterization as built structure.