The state of exception legally expresses the settler’s psychic siege mentality.

Evidence

The state of exception is, for all intents and purposes, the legal expression of the psychic “state of siege” that afflicts the settler colonial everywhere and at any moment – that sense of always being in a state of emergency, of being surrounded and endangered even when in command of massive superiority of force. It expresses the colonial imaginary of an ever-looming threat of the savage or uncivil Other in one’s midst or in one’s hinterland. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2095

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter-7 claim that settlers weaponize institutionalized legal privilege; the permanent emergency law here is a direct instrument of it. — connects to: The permanently retained state of exception expresses settlers’ felt siege even when dominant. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2095

Broader Connections

• The permanently retained state of exception expresses settlers’ felt siege even when dominant. #corroborates (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2095