Summary
Jeff Halper’s term, used by Lorenzo Veracini for the systematic ‘matrix of control’ and consequent separation that, he argues, constituted a colonised Palestinian subjectivity and thereby marked the strategic failure of the settler colonial project in the West Bank; note 15 gives Halper’s article as the entry point for the term (The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, PDF p.11, note 15 / printed p.10).
Details
- Veracini’s use: Israeli planners “did not realise that the systematic ‘matrix of control’ and the consequent separation they were enforcing would inevitably constitute a colonised Palestinian subjectivity that marks the strategic failure of a settler colonial project” (PDF p.11 / printed p.10).
- The entry point given in note 15 is Jeff Halper, ‘The Key to Peace: Dismantling the Matrix of Control’, ICAHD, accessed 02/12/12 (PDF p.11, note 15).
- The matrix belongs, in Veracini’s sorting, to the colonial form: a regime designed to reproduce itself and become permanent, producing a subjected and external Palestinian collective rather than the ‘domestic dependent nation’ that would mark a settler colonial project’s triumph (PDF p.7, p.11 / printed p.6, p.10).
Related pages
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jeff Halper, Settler Colonialism, Closure system, Lorenzo Veracini