Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1177/03063968231155358
Jason C. Mueller
For over twenty years the United States government has engaged in what it calls a global ‘war on terror’ (GWOT). This war spans continents and while US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq receive modest attention, the secretive US war in Somalia remains under-discussed. This article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of what the US has done in Somalia since 2001, considering the political, economic and ideological elements of these acts. Data on the US’s war on the Somali people is placed in dialogue with ongoing theorising on the merits of reparations in the world system.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1177/03063968231157294
D. Richards
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Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1177/03063968231152093
Liz Fekete
This article, developed from a panel speech on ‘Radical internationalism and shifts in the global order’ at the IRR50 New Circuits of Anti-racism Conference at King’s College, London, October 2022, takes issue with simplistic and partial positions surrounding Russia’s war with Ukraine. It points to the fact that we now have to reckon with a clash of imperialisms (of the US and Russia), the weaponising of local nationalisms and a reworking of Eurocentrism born of the Cold War. The author warns that revanchist ethnonationalisms in central and eastern Europe and the Baltic States − based in a distorted rereading of history, especially of the countries’ roles in the Holocaust − are being ignored in the interests of a larger geopolitics with consequences also for the future direction of the EU (see Figure 1). In this, anti-Communism, which has defined so much of the history of the Global South in terms of violent opposition to anti-colonial liberation struggles, is being updated and revitalised.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1177/03063968221148086
Donari Yahzid
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1177/03063968221143908
Rachel H. Brown
The author examines the way in which the example of Filipina caregiver Rose Fostanes, winner of X-Factor Israel, was used to reframe Israel as multicultural and economically empowering for migrants. Such representations of Israeli magnanimity obscure the ‘incommensurable’ debts owed to Palestinians for dispossession of their land, while obscuring past and ongoing labour and resource extraction that shape global labour markets and drive migration. Such representations of non-white (im)migrant inclusion are common within liberal settler economies, and have long been deployed to shore up global influence in states embroiled in colonial violence. Through the lens of debt, the author highlights the comparative racialisations of migrants.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-06-27DOI: 10.59368/agingbio.20230001
Manolis Maragkakis, Sulochan Malla, Maria Hatzoglou, Aleksandra Trifunovic, Adam B Glick, Toren Finkel, Valter D Longo, Susmita Kaushik, Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, Gordon J Lithgow, Nirinjini Naidoo, Lauren N Booth, Matthew J Payea, Allison B Herman, Rafael de Cabo, David M Wilson, Luigi Ferrucci, Myriam Gorospe
On April 28th, 2022, a group of scientific leaders gathered virtually to discuss molecular and cellular mechanisms of responses to stress. Conditions of acute, high-intensity stress are well documented to induce a series of adaptive responses that aim to promote survival until the stress has dissipated and then guide recovery. However, high-intensity or persistent stress that goes beyond the cell's compensatory capacity are countered with resilience strategies that are not completely understood. These adaptative strategies, which are an essential component of the study of aging biology, were the theme of the meeting. Specific topics discussed included mechanisms of proteostasis, such as the unfolded protein response (UPR) and the integrated stress response (ISR), as well as mitochondrial stress and lysosomal stress responses. Attention was also given to regulatory mechanisms and associated biological processes linked to age-related conditions, such as muscle loss and regeneration, cancer, senescence, sleep quality, and degenerative disease, with a general focus on the relevance of stress responses to frailty. We summarize the concepts and potential future directions that emerged from the discussion and highlight their relevance to the study of aging and age-related chronic diseases.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968221139993
S. Hirsch, Geoff Brown
This article explores the overturning of the ‘colour bar’ in a Manchester pub in 1953. Led by Black boxer and Communist Len Johnson, the resistance and ultimate success in breaking the ‘colour bar’ tells much about Black agency, the relationship between anti-racism and the Communist Party, and the making and unmaking of race in modern Britain. The article outlines Johnson’s life up until 1953 and the history of the ‘colour bar’ in Britain that shaped Johnson’s career trajectory. In Britain, formal ‘colour bars’ existed, like that in boxing, but it was far more common for informal ones to operate that were only revealed through resistance to individual impositions. In the post-war years, Johnson spent much of his time challenging these unwritten ‘colour bars’ in Manchester as well as creating a new and explicitly anti-racist space, the ‘New International Club’. Such actions were part of a vibrant and dynamic politics led by Black activists in 1940s and 1950s Manchester. This piece shows how Johnson’s Communist Party membership was both central to Johnson’s activism, which included hosting Paul Robeson in Manchester to the consternation of the Pan-Africanists, as well as how the Party itself held back on its commitment to fighting for racial equality.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968221142773
F. Webber
In conclusion, Robinson breaks new ground with his questions and probing examinations. What direction will splits in the TCC take, and how should the Left respond? Is it time for an anti-fascist united front built around the Green New Deal? How can the Left unite and move beyond narrow identitarian politics? All these questions, and others, are pregnant within Robinson’s thinking. In taking an open-ended look at these issues, he provides us with an essential work to help guide left activists and thinkers towards an effective strategy that can build counter-hegemony, challenge capitalism, and move us towards the emancipatory project the world so desperately needs.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968221142770
C. Mills
{"title":"Work and the Carceral State By Jon Burnett","authors":"C. Mills","doi":"10.1177/03063968221142770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968221142770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47028,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"64 1","pages":"105 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41590916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1177/03063968221136824
P. Jani
{"title":"The World in a Grain of Sand: postcolonial literature and radical universalism By Nivedita Majumdar","authors":"P. Jani","doi":"10.1177/03063968221136824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968221136824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47028,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"64 1","pages":"90 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43605926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}