The Politics of labour: everyday practices of Palestinian workers in the settler economy
Abstract
This article examines the daily practices of Palestinian workers within the settler economy as forms of resistance that penetrate and undermine settler-colonial domination. While existing scholarship emphasises systematic Israeli violations against Palestinian labour, it often neglects the power of workers to develop everyday resistance practices. By centring labour as a site of daily struggle and drawing on nine semi-structured interviews with Palestinian workers in the settler economy, the article offers new insights into lived experience under settler colonialism and argues that workers’ everyday practices penetrate settler sovereignty, producing an intertwined form of sovereignty that challenges colonial domination over the land.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Middle East Politics and Society
Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Political Power
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 252–275
- Publication date
- 13 January 2026
- Language
- EN