The colonial situation manufactures the colonialist as much as the colonized.
Evidence
We need only to add that a willed and adopted settler-colonial identity, one that the history of Protestants in the Republic suggests was never inevitable, was shaped by a state that guaranteed the conditions of its perpetuation and furnished the matrix within which political positions were lived through religion and religious difference expressed through the political. Only within that settler-colonial framework do the apparent peculiarities of Northern Ireland make sense and only thus do they articulate one another. “The colonial situation manufactures colonialists, just as it manufactures the colonized” (Memmi 1967, 56). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2113
Categorization
- DEFINE: Quotes Memmi’s dictum that becomes the chapter’s thesis.
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 119
Broader Connections
- The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system.
#corroborates(0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 119