In this geopolitical discourse, itself a practice of“epistemological imperi-alism”, territorial control of prime strategic“real estate”quickly overrodeextra-spatial considerations.131These discourses also perpetuated anxieties,which not only shored up the national security state in the metropole but ...
History repeatedly shows that one cannot preserve a democratic core in conjunction with an oppressed periphery of colonial real estate.The role of imperial power entails the suppression, subversion, or manipulation of all forms of free speech, governance, and elections. It usually involves unsavory ...