Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1177/03063968221142214
F. Obeng-Odoom
enable the pulling together of scholars engaged in social justice-oriented research, whether motivated by class politics or radical cultural work? The World in a Grain of Sand forcefully reminds us of the need for radical universalism and I strongly affiliate with its motivations and its insistence that postcolonial literature far exceeds postcolonial theory. I question, however, whether yesterday’s battlelines against postmodernist theory are helpful in building solidarity – especially when history is pushing people together, regardless of the theories to which they may subscribe.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1177/03063968221136788
D. Bjelić
A militant critique of ‘Europe’ as the civilisation of racialism singles out the work of Cedric J. Robinson from other critical scholarship on Europe. Even though his concept of ‘racial capitalism’ is increasingly cited, on the whole, Robinson’s works are largely unknown in European studies. Perhaps they are too threatening to Europe’s self-centred and self-embellishing narratives on racism, which would explain European studies scholars’ silent treatment of Robinson’s critique of ‘Europe’ as foundational to the West’s culture of racialism. Unlike the proponents of postcolonial and decolonial studies, Robinson does not challenge Eurocentrism from a non-European perspective, but rather from the erased history of European slavery as the material variant of Western civilisation. To this end, he dives deeply into European medieval and early medieval history with a series of interventions that aim to abolish the notion that European culture was universalist in its trajectory, rather than racialist ab initio. And from that understanding derives the imperative for the abolition of the Western racialist order of civilisation.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1177/03063968221141026
Jerry Harris
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1177/03063968221142217
Micah Herskind
focus on symptoms as Táíwò alleges (for example, on page 126 of Reconsidering Reparations). Again, Táíwò confuses income and wealth, accusing Darity of being all about income (e.g., p. 143) when, in fact, Darity is all about wealth. Finally, Táíwò’s focus on climate crisis, a ‘green new deal’ (p. 190), and climate reparations fundamentally misunderstands the wider problem of ecological imperialism. That includes but, is not reducible to, climate change. So, what is required is ecological, not just climate, reparations. Yet, Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations excels in many more aspects. By building on his insightful critique of Rawlsian approaches to reparations, his powerful reconstruction of reparations and emphasis on how we need to take the remaking of the future into account in reconsidering reparations, it is possible to move past the shoots to the roots of ecological imperialism. Alternatives are clearly needed for a just ecological political economy.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1177/03063968221134026
M. McGovern
The British state is currently taking forward deeply contentious legislation that would essentially end all legacy investigations and court cases relating to the conflict in the North of Ireland (1968–1998). Shaped by a long-term rightwing campaign to prevent any further investigation or prosecution of former British soldiers, and a wider culture of denial of the role of state collusion in the conflict, the legacy proposals are ostensibly defended on the grounds that current mechanisms do not work for victims’ families. This article seeks to both challenge that narrative and to build on earlier analyses of collusion (Race & Class 57, no. 2; 58, no. 3) to demonstrate how recently published reports of official investigations into collusion between state agents and loyalist paramilitaries have provided important information for victims’ families and insights into the patterns of collusion. Such patterns can be identified in terms of state actions and omissions taking place before, during and after lethal loyalist attacks. They include providing weapons and targeting intelligence while failing to provide warnings to those being targeted; the direct involvement of serving and former members of the security forces in loyalist killings; blocking investigations, destroying records and employing (and protecting) state agents and informers involved in mass murder.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1177/03063968221131260
J. Bourne, Anya Edmond-Pettitt, C. Searle
This article retrieves the life and cultural contributions to Britain of Trinidadian Pearl Prescod, singer, campaigner and the first Black female actor at the National Theatre. She is one of a generation of artists, performers, singers and intellectuals whose contribution to the creation of a Black and anti-colonial strand in British culture in the 1950s and ‘60s has been neglected. By tracking her life from her colonial origins through her migration to Britain and struggles to find work in the 1950s, to her brief break-out professional success in the 1960s and early death in 1966, she is pulled from the historical margins. Her life story, which touches on movements of so many hues – Negritude, Pan-Africanism, Black Power, Communism, campaigns for colonial freedom, the March on Washington, the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination − reveals the strong community connections and internationalism of the time. Pearl, the piece argues, was typical of a whole overlooked ‘West Indian generation’ (of educated and politically militant artists, writers, dramatists and actors) whose anti-colonial consciousness and creative activities challenge the popular accepted narrative of an undifferentiated ‘Windrush generation’. The piece contains an account of witnessing Pearl and her fellow actors perform at the National Theatre.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221127591
Liz Fekete
Manufactured, divisive and destructive outrage over supposed ‘woke’ issues has long been building in the UK, fomented by think-tanks, media and politicians. To understand the relationship between culture wars in the US and the UK, the interests that lie behind them, and what can be learnt from US resistances to corporate donor influence, Liz Fekete interviews Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola, authors of Free Speech and Koch Money: manufacturing a campus culture war (Pluto Press, 2021). Wilson and Kamola analyse the situation in terms of a plutocratic class’s counter-revolution against progressive gains in labour, civil rights and consumer and environmental protections. Though corporate leaders do not hesitate to make use of figures on the alt-Right and those who promote racial science, the authors argue that culture wars are ultimately related to the need to unchain wealth from any regulatory or other constraints.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221125346
Sigrid Corry
This article investigates recent plans for the offshoring and externalisation of the Danish border. It traces a series of proposals launched by the Danish government to establish deportation centres on Danish islands for ‘rejected asylum seekers’ facing criminal charges, as well as the Danish People’s Party’s call for their relocation to Greenland. It reads these plans in conjunction with recent legislation enabling the full externalisation of asylum processing to Rwanda (and/or elsewhere), launched with the stated goal of ‘zero asylum-seeking’ in Denmark. These plans, to expel an unwanted population as far as possible and prevent new arrivals, extend an increasingly carceral and exclusionary border regime.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1177/03063968221122304
Kate Bernstock
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Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1177/03063968221123260
M. Hudson
Fifty years after John Berger’s controversial acceptance speech for the Booker Prize in 1972, in which he highlighted Booker McConnell’s involvement in the colonial exploitation of the Caribbean and announced that he would donate half of the prize money to the British Black Panthers and use the other half to research the situation of European migrant workers, the author reflects on the implications of the speech for anti-racist struggle in the 1970s and today, as well as the direction of Berger’s work after this pivotal intervention.
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