Summary
Historian of postcolonial Africa cited by Lorenzo Veracini for the repeated observation that the decolonised polity, and the neo-colonial relations it entertains with former colonising cores, should be understood as the colonial state’s direct successors (The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, PDF p.13, note 20 / printed p.12).
Details
- The works cited in note 20 are Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Oxford, James Currey, 1996) and When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002) (PDF p.13, note 20).
- Veracini uses the point to argue that a successor Palestinian polity inheriting the Occupation’s structures would be the colonial occupation’s logical outcome rather than its demise, and that the scholarship on decolonisation requires continuity and discontinuity to be appraised together (PDF p.13-14 / printed p.12-13).
Related pages
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Decolonisation, Settler Colonialism