Territorial claims idealize the maternal body and repudiate the Other

Evidence

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (1985) has also taken this line of thought for an interesting walk; focusing on the maternal body as a fantasy object within racist and national discourse, she insists that its idealization is inscribed in territorial claims of every kind, from the assertion of autocthony to “we were here first” nativism; this sense of belonging always contains within it the germs (sic) of a more or less violent repudiation of the Other and indeed of the symbolic order as a whole. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1394

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ADDENDUM ‘On Sacrifice’ article: autochthony claims — ‘we were here first’ nativism — resemble the sacral-kingship logic where land legitimacy grounds itself in a fantasized first bloodline. — connects to: Sacralizing territory lets political claims override demographic and geographic facts — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 561