Pub Date : 2021-11-19DOI: 10.1177/03063968211054857
Blake C. Stewart
This essay seeks to build on the concept of exterminism developed by E. P. Thompson in his 1980 New Left Review essay ‘Notes on exterminism, the last state of civilization’. Thompson’s polemical focus on weapons systems in his analysis was the product of a particular moment in history; one where the most precipitous threat to human security was the Cold War. The concept of exhaustionism developed in this piece describes the governance ideologies and frameworks found within advanced capitalist state/societal complexes in response to the present ‘organic crisis’ of post-Cold War global capitalism; one accelerated by the 2008 financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic. The exhaustionism of political leadership within the contemporary world order has contributed to widely held assumptions that the collapse of civilisation and the planet is either occurring or imminent. Moreover, it is also implied that it is too late for a novel or fundamental transformation in governing ideology, global governance and political economy to reverse the current predicament. This exhaustionism in many ways mirrors the absurdity and cynicism of the Cold War military technicians and nuclear regimes described by Thompson’s concept of exterminism, but with notable differences related to the host of actors involved, temporal horizon, and emphasis on class, imperialism and supremacism.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1177/03063968211054856
Elise Hjalmarson
Despite perfunctory characterisation of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) as a ‘triple win’, scholars and activists have long admonished its lack of government oversight, disrespect for migrant rights and indentureship of foreign workers. This article contends that the SAWP is predicated upon naturalised, deeply engrained and degrading beliefs that devalue Black lives and labour. Based on twenty months’ ethnographic fieldwork in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada, it reveals the extent to which anti-Black racism permeates, organises and frustrates workers’ lives on farms and in local communities. It situates such experiences, which workers characterise as ‘prison life’, in the context of anti-Black immigration policy and the workings of racial capitalism. This ethnography of Caribbean migrants not only adds perspective to scholarship hitherto focused on the experiences of Latino workers, but it also reinforces critical work on anti-Black racism in contemporary Canada.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1177/03063968211049764
Jerry Harris
As the global pandemic accelerates economic problems, divisions over global capitalism have sharpened. This includes those who want to delink the US/China relationship, those who wish to recalibrate but maintain the transnational system, and China’s own more assertive strategy as its economic power increases. These debates affect national and world politics as antagonism grows, even as capital continues to pour into China.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968211011002
Danny Reilly
1 https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/trespass-and-nuisance-land (accessed 20 December 2020). 2 The Conservative and Unionist Party Manifesto, 2019, https://assets-global.website-files. com/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c/5dda924905da587992a064ba_Conservative%202019%20 Manifesto.pdf (accessed 20 December 2020). 3 Marcus Barnett, ‘The Kinder Scout Trespass’, Tribune, 24 September 2019, https://tribunemag. co.uk/2019/04/the-kinder-scout-mass-trespass (accessed 20 December 2020).
1.https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/trespass-and-nuisance-land（2020年12月20日查阅）。2《保守党和统一党宣言》，2019年，https://assets-global.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c/5dda924905da587992a064ba_Conservative%202019%20 Manifesto.pdf（2020年12月20日访问）。3 Marcus Barnett，“Kinder Scout非法侵入”，《论坛报》，2019年9月24日，https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/04/the-kinder-scout-mass-trespass（2020年12月20日访问）。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968211037219
Sophia Siddiqui
In this challenging article, the author marries the notion of reproduction, both biological and social, to new forms of political and popular racism in Europe wherein the family and breeding to keep the nation white and ‘native’ are now centre stage. Whilst certain women’s reproductive capacities are being incentivised for nationalist ends, this goes alongside a rollback in reproductive rights as well as a series of exclusions aimed at those marked as demographic threats – migrants, Muslims and, increasingly, LGBTQ people. She demonstrates how migrant women, who are vilified as breeders who could threaten the purity of the nation, are essential to maintain the traditional nuclear family under capitalism, through caring for the young and old, but simultaneously denied their rights as workers and mothers. The focus on reproduction is now a key dividing line in European racism; something that feminists and anti-racists should now address. This, she argues is more than a matter of intersectionality, but a new racist avatar which she terms reproductive racism.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968211020890
Sam Berkson
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968211045547
Wayne Farah
As chief executive Simon Stevens ends his stint at the helm of England’s National Health Service (NHS), a Black health activist takes a critical look at the direction of travel on racial equality under his leadership. He argues that ‘racial democracy’, i.e., ethnic representation or diversity, has displaced the rooting out of racialised injustice and inequality. Using the example of the health service, he reveals just how the struggle against racism in institutions has been reduced under neoliberalism to a mechanical mathematics of inequality. While, simultaneously, long-discarded eugenicist and biological arguments are making an unwelcome comeback, and the ‘hostile environment’, ushered in by New Labour when Stevens was a health adviser, takes its toll on migrants and refugees.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968211045561
Anita Rupprecht
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.1177/03063968211041498
Sam Berkson
The author, a keen recreational cricketer and educationalist, reflects on the nature of racism and commitment to anti-racism in the game in England, where, recently, Ollie Robinson was penalised for historical tweets on social media. Through interviews with key players from ethnic minorities about their experiences, he concludes that the culture of cricket and the colour of its selection bear the hallmarks of an upper-class, public school-inculcated privilege and profound racism, more serious than Robinson’s offensive tweets.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1177/03063968211033525
Kristín Loftsdóttir, M. Mixa
This article examines the relationship between nationalistic mobilisations, hidden funds and undisclosed campaign contributions, commonly known as dark money. Contextualising Brexit alongside the Icelandic economic crash of 2008 shows how nationalist mobilisation and racism can secure economic and political interests for a small minority and thus create space for what Zygmunt Bauman has called ‘evasion’ or ‘slippage’ as a primary technique of power in the present. Both the build-up to Brexit and the Icelandic economic crash were characterised by a strong national-centred rhetoric of ‘us-the-nation’ versus ‘others’ that diverted attention from massive minority interests, which had access to hidden funds. The Panama Papers showed that many of the same people celebrated in Iceland as the embodied representation of the country were simultaneously moving money into tax havens. Exposés have also revealed the way that dark money secretly funded campaigns using anti-migrant racism to facilitate the Brexiteers’ longer-term interests.
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