Summary
Coined ‘Welfare Colonialism’ in the late 1970s to describe the colonial relationships then prevalent in the Canadian North, cited by Lorenzo Veracini as the precedent for a non-exploitative colonialism (The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, PDF p.10, note 14 / printed p.9).
Details
- Paine’s piece is ‘The Path of Welfare Colonialism’, in Paine (ed.), The White Arctic: Anthropological Essays on Tutelage and Ethnicity (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1977), pp. 7-28, with the quoted characterisation at p. 3: “Inherently contradictory, ‘solicitous rather than exploitive, and liberal rather than repressive’, welfare colonialism is a circumstance in which colonisers still take all decisions and still control the future of the colonised” (PDF p.10, note 14).
- Veracini’s extension: “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).
Related pages
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Welfare Colonialism, Harmfare Colonialism, Settler Colonialism