Entangled legacies of empire : : Race, finance and inequality / / edited by Paul Robert Gilbert [and three others].

More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today's global economy. In defiance of...

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Place / Publishing House:Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 330 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - Paul Robert Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie Part I: Blowouts 1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives - Imre Szeman 2 'Boom!' - Tracy Lassiter 3 Spillcam - Alysse Kushinski Part II: Circulations 4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa: colonial and decolonial finance in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1860s-1890s - Catherine Comyn 5 Both sides of the coin: Lady Liberty and the construction of 'the New Native' on currency in Oregon's colonial period - Ashley Cordes6 Milo - Syahirah Abdul RahmanPart III: Borders 7 'The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary' - Kathryn Medien8 Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt - Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen and Kehinde Sorinmade 9 Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension - Christian Rossipal Part IV: Emergence 10 'Afro-pessimism' and emerging markets finance - Ilias Alami 11 Dreams of extractive development: reviving the Benguela Railway in central Angola - Jon Schubert 12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain - Linsey Ly Part V: Gestures 13 Italy, Libya and the EU: co-dependent systems and interweaving imperial interests at the Mediterranean border - Alessandra Ferrini 14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia: Australian debts to Gurindji economies - Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon 15 Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development - Zenia KishPart VI: Play 16 Eternal conflict: Sderot's underground playground - Oded Nir 17 I am your dividend - Ben Stork Part VII: Control 18 'The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless' - Laura Kalba 19 Data Centre Seance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism - Jacquelene Drinkall Part VIII: Imaginaries 20 Mesoamerica Resiste: staging the battle over Mesoamerica - capitalist fantasies vs grassroots liberation - Debbie Samaniego and Felix Mantz21 Extractive scars and the lightness of finance - Maria Dyveke Styve22 Imagined maps of racial capitalism - Gargi Bhattacharyya Index.