If a colonial power succeeds in controlling the perceived, conceived and lived space then it can produce its own space from the colonized place. If it fails to produce its own space, it would continue to be a strange entity and a very peculiar kind of abstraction.1 Such a society

would fall to the level of folklore and sooner or later disappear altogether, thereby immediately losing its identity, its denomination and its feeble degree of reality. This suggests a possible criterion for distinguishing between ideology and practice as well as between ideology and knowledge (or, otherwise stated, for distinguishing between the lived on the one hand and the perceived and the conceived on the other, and for discerning their interrelationship, their oppositions and dispositions, and what they reveal versus what they conceal).2