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Fanon Chapter 3, culture: it is in the colonial context that culture…
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culture: it is in the colonial context that culture became a quality of collectives.
(in European discourse)
before this modern age, culture was possessed by individuals. Like bourgeois people who looked at art.
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Under colonial conditions, it is made impossible for the colonised to articulate their culture.
once the modern conception of culture became common in european discourse - as the property of the collective, European did the Linneas categorisation of cultures.
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The colonial creation of culture is like the colonial creation of race:
The creation of culturally different communities.
The Europeans get to have national culture, the colonised have no national consciousness because they have a plurality, they have culturally different communities.
culture is used in two different ways:
- Europeans have national culture which is productive.
- The colonised have local backwards cultures that hold them back.
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Colonisers have not only suppressed national culture, but they distinguish between communities to rule over them through their differences.
Differences they not only exploited, differences they literally reified.
Nationalism
Two basic models available in Europe:
- Ethnic nationalism: German or Spanish nationalism
- Civic nationalism: French Republic nationalism
It is only in the last 2 or 3 decades that the majority of people living in French territory have begun to speak French
France was a multilingual place.
The result of the history of nationalism is that countries are bound cutural entities, even though that has arisen from colonial context.
if you have social and political policies, your policies will not favour one group
(as opposed to bourgeois nationalism)
It might be useful to see nationalism as a tool to overthrow the coloniser, but its usefulness diminishes after that
nationalism does not give you the blueprint for economic policy or agricultural policy. It does not represent the common people. all it gives is pride.
no matter what variety of nationalism it is, it demands conformity.
fanon says that this conformity is not reality, and is undemocratic, because there are multiple experiences of the past.
in a political context, nationalism demands conformity.
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colonialism also materially exploited us. why is he jumping from economic exploitation to psychological threads?
in the discourse of the rational, civilising European, all of those inferior qualities of the colonized render them unable to make usefulness of the natural material world that surrounds them.
Too irrational for politics, too irrational for politics (except for subjugation)
Fanon is struggling to tie the material dimensions of colonialism with the ideological, psychological dimensions.
History: The result of the actions of human actors
over time, this switched from that of great actors to that of communities
from the late 1800s onwards, nationalism becomes the framework for writing histories.
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If the aim of the anti-colonial nationalist is to create a national identity, they have to engage with this plurality of cultures.
how do we rebuild this world despite:
- The violence of colonialism
- The differentialised impact of colonialism on the colonised