Understanding colonial damage requires walking the wounded earth step by step

Evidence

We must, on the contrary, walk step by step along the great wound inflicted on the Algerian soil and on the Algerian people. We must question the Algerian earth meter by meter, and measure the fragmentation of the Algerian family, the degree to which it finds itself scattered. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 391

Categorization

• SEED: Fanon’s method — refusing to ‘fly over’ a situation in favor of meter-by-meter walking — is a reproducible technique for reporting on slow, diffuse violence.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial history leaves signatures that cannot be erased without destroying the present; Colonies and U.S. territories suffer the worst base environmental damage

Broader Connections

• Colonial history leaves signatures that cannot be erased without destroying the present #corroborates (0.55)
• Colonies and U.S. territories suffer the worst base environmental damage #expands (0.40)