Summary
Lorenzo Veracini’s proposed definition, in a footnote, for the colonial regime instituted in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: similarly solicitous rather than exploitative as Robert Paine’s ‘Welfare Colonialism’, and yet repressive and more repressive (The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, PDF p.10, note 14 / printed p.9).
Details
- The term appears once, in note 14, as the closing sentence of the discussion of Paine’s welfare colonialism: “Similarly solicitous rather than exploitative, and yet repressive and more repressive, the colonial regime instituted in the Occupied Palestinian Territories could be defined as ‘harmfare colonialism’” (PDF p.10, note 14).
- Its place in the argument: controlling a specific constituency while refraining from depending on, or from exploiting, its labour is an effort to supersede a crucial aspect of a colonial system of relationships that is bound to fail, and ceasing direct exploitation cannot turn colonialism into settler colonialism, since non-exploitative colonialisms exist (PDF p.10 / printed p.9, citing Shir Hever’s The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation, 2010, in note 13).
Related pages
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Welfare Colonialism, Robert Paine, Settler Colonialism, Shir Hever