Resistance centers form in response to occupier plans but can exceed them

Evidence

In “Algeria Unveiled,” postcolonial giant Frantz Fanon wrote, “[It is] the plans of the occupier that determine the centres of resistance around which a people’s will to survive become organized.” Not on this night in Istanbul, which provided intellectual oasis and physical exodus from the Islamophobic hegemony that trapped us. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1222

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does diaspora organizing in Istanbul exceed or escape the trajectory Fanon describes?

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