Settler colonialism is not healthy: Yara Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh, David Mills, Osama Tanous, Bram Wispelwey, ‘Reassembling the Pieces: Settler Colonialism and the Reconception of Palestinian Health’, Health and Human Rights Journal, 24, 2, 2022, pp. 229-235 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonialism is not healthy: Yara Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh, David Mills, Osama Tanous, Bram Wispelwey, ‘Reassembling the Pieces: Settler Colonialism and the Reconception of Palestinian Health’, Health and Human Rights Journal, 24, 2, 2022, pp. 229-235

13Dec22

Abstract: In health as in many disciplines, too often the perspectives and framings of the very populations in question are obscured in favor of staid and acceptable discourses born out of the Global North and its attendant neocolonial and settler-colonial logics. Indigenous scholars and practitioners across the globe have long been disregarded when assessing, examining, and tending to their own health and well-being. The health issues of Indigenous and otherwise marginalized and racialized populations are thus frequently analyzed without sufficient historical or political context, rendering them as mere victims of humanitarian misfortune rather than as groups that are deliberately harmed and discounted in service of broader political, and often territorial, aims. So while the fragmentation of the Palestinian people and land is now increasingly understood to be the legacy of more than a century of Zionist settler colonialism, the hegemonic discourses on Palestinian health often perpetuate their dismemberment in eliding this history and their ongoing dispossession.

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