Entangled Legacies: Race, finance and inequality

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Coming in December of 2022 from Manchester University Press, edited by Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie: Entangled Legacies: Race, finance and inequality.

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526163431/

Over 25 contributors from around the world have prepared short, accessible essays that take a striking image as a starting point to explore how today’s global financial structures are haunted by the ghosts of empire.

Written for newcomers and specialists alike, this unique collection traces the legacies of racism, colonialism and imperialism across a broad range of examples, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from Angola’s railways to China’s ghost cities, from the depths of the ocean to the ethereal world of data. It also tells stories of resistance and contestation, from Maori banks to radical muralists, from subtle gestures to mass uprisings.

With chapters on global commodities ranging from oil to clothing to the popular drink Milo, the authors in this collection take an interdisciplinary approach, melding political economy with cultural analysis, critical geography with historical acumen.

This book is both a fascinating journey for readers and an invaluable tool for teachers in many fields seeking to awaken students’ curiosity about how the global capitalist economy emerged from and reproduces racialized inequalities.

Provisional table of contents Introduction  Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven & Johnna Montgomerie  PART 1: BLOWOUTS   1Pumpjacks, playgrounds & cheap lives
Imre Szeman   2‘Boom’
Tracy Lassiter   3Spillcam
Alysse Kushinski PART 2: CIRCULATIONS   4Te Peeke o Aotearoa: Colonial and Decolonial Finance in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1860s-1890s
Catherine Cumming   5Both sides of the coin: Miss Liberty and the construction of ‘the New Native’ on currency in Oregon’s colonial period
Ashley Cordes   6Milo
Syahirah Abdul Rahman     PART 3: BORDERS   7‘The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary’
Kathryn Medien   8Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen, and Kehinde Sorinmade   9Libre: Debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension
Christian Rossipal     PART 4: EMERGENCE   10‘Afro-pessmism’ and emerging markets finance
Ilias Alami   11Dreams of extractive development: reviving the Benguela Railway in central Angola
Jon Schubert   12Spectral Cities and Rare Earth Mining in the North China Plain
Linsey Ly     PART 5: GESTURES   13Italy, Libya and the EU: co-dependent systems and interweaving imperial interests at the Mediterranean border
Alessandra Ferrini   14Racial capitalism and settler colonisation in Australia: Australian debts to Gurindji economies
Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon   15Connected by a Blue Sweater: Ethical Narratives of Philanthrocapitalist Development
Zenia Kish     PART 6: PLAY   16Eternal conflict
Oded Nir   17I am your dividend
Ben Stork     PART 7: CONTROL   18The shape of the stock exchange is shapelessness
Laura Kalba   19Data centre seance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism
Jacquelene Drinkall   PART 8: IMAGINARIES   20Mesoamérica Resiste: Staging the Battle over Mesoamerica – Capitalist Fantasies vs. Grassroots Liberation
Debbie Samaniego & Felix Mantz   21Extractive scars & the lightness of finance
Maria Dyveke Styve   22Imagined maps of racial capitalism
Gargi Bhattacharyya   

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