Summary
Robert Paine’s notion, coined in the late 1970s for the system of colonial relationships then prevalent in the Canadian North: a non-exploitative colonialism that is “solicitous rather than exploitive, and liberal rather than repressive”, while colonisers still take all decisions and control the colonised’s future (The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, PDF p.10, note 14 / printed p.9).
Details
- Paine’s formulation is quoted from p. 3 of ‘The Path of Welfare Colonialism’ (1977): the system is inherently contradictory, “solicitous rather than exploitive, and liberal rather than repressive” (PDF p.10, note 14).
- Lorenzo Veracini cites it to establish that non-exploitative colonialisms exist: ceasing the direct exploitation of a colonised collective cannot turn colonialism into settler colonialism (PDF p.10 / printed p.9).
- Veracini’s parallel coinage for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, similarly solicitous rather than exploitative and yet repressive and more repressive, is ‘Harmfare Colonialism’ (PDF p.10, note 14).
Related pages
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Harmfare Colonialism, Robert Paine, Settler Colonialism