Postcolonial Capitalism
Justice, Global Labour and Racial Violence
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2021
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-138-78980-7 (ISBN)
Description
Foregrounding the postcolonial context and racial subjugation - and thus suspending the thesis that the category of labour is universal - this collection examines the temporal and spatial trajectories of global capitalism. "Labour", Marx states in the Introduction to the Grundrisse, "seems a quite simple category. But, it is argued here, any radical programme for a critique of global capitalism needs to complexify, expand, and in the process perhaps explode, Marx's and others' glassy formulations of labour. As such - and whilst displacing the neoliberal appropriation of cultural difference implicit in values such as equality, diversity, and dignity - this book considers whether historical-materialist concepts, and the political interventions they inform, can be immediately applied across the global space, given the postcoloniality that notions of racial and cultural difference have produced. Foregrounding the colonial and the racial, and addressing how they inflect the various specifications of the category of labour, this book offers an original perspective on the juridical and ethical architectures, procedures, and instruments at work in global capitalism. It will be invaluable to those concerned with analyzing, and overcoming, the current inequities that characterize today's global division of labour.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-138-78980-7 (9781138789807)
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Persons
Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Rashne Limke are both based at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London
Content
Toward a Critical History of the Colours of Labour Power Appropriation and the body politic: post-colonial legal form, Brenna Bhandar Place Against Empire Time, Space and Labour in Global Capitalism Inside and Out: Unwaged reproductive labour as an internalised outside within capitalism Get to the Ghetto: On Labour and Salt Human Capital and the New European Order The Proto-Fascist Turn: Race, Immigration, and Neo-Nationalism in the U.S. and E.U. Interventions, or the question of collective organization in postcolonial capitalism Obama and Faces of Money: Nation, State & Economy Policing L.A.'s Human Terrain: The Criminal Non-Human at Point Zero Unethical Representations: Tracing The Play Of The Erotic In Postcolonial Violence Creative Labor and the Commons in Global Perspective Ghostly Inscriptions: 'Oeuvres' of Postcolonial Performance Using our Last Gifts: Conversations with Abdulrazak Gurnah, A Fakhry Davids and Frantz Fanon and Global post-colonial capitalism Necessity, Immensity and Crisis Aesthetics as a Regulative Discourse of Race and the Human, David Lloyd Radical Praxis