Late settler genocides: Bruno Huberman, ‘Genocide, Peripheral Fascisms, and Late Neocolonialism in Palestine/Israel and Brazil’, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES, 2024 | settler colonial studies blog

Late settler genocides: Bruno Huberman, ‘Genocide, Peripheral Fascisms, and Late Neocolonialism in Palestine/Israel and Brazil’, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES, 2024

19Nov24

Abstract: The Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the Brazilian genocide against Black and Indigenous populations provide an opportunity to investigate the processes of elimination in settler-colonial nations. This article aims to examine the conditions under which settler states can exercise sovereign power against subaltern populations. It is argued that the escalation of structural genocide to expand settler colonization and govern surplus populations was facilitated by the rise of far-right governments. Nevertheless, the Brazilian state’s capacity to exercise sovereign power has been restricted by the transition to neocolonialism, which enabled Brazilians to contain the far right. The space for the promotion of the largest genocide in recent history in Gaza was created by the Israeli effort to abort any possibility of transition to neocolonialism in Palestine, resulting in the maintenance of direct settler colonialism, the far-right government, and its close alliance with the United States.

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