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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 those who claim that today’s capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Paul Gilbert is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of SussexClea Bourne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of LondonMax Haiven is Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead UniversityJohnna Montgomerie is Professor of International Political Economy at King's College London
Introduction – Paul Robert Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna MontgomeriePart I: Blowouts1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives – Imre Szeman2 ‘Boom!' – Tracy Lassiter3 Spillcam – Alysse KushinskiPart II: Circulations4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa: colonial and decolonial finance in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1860s–1890s – Catherine Comyn5 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: Borders7 ‘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 Sorinmade9 Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension – Christian RossipalPart IV: Emergence10 ‘Afro-pessimism’ and emerging markets finance – Ilias Alami11 Dreams of extractive development: reviving the Benguela Railway in central Angola – Jon Schubert12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain – Linsey LyPart V: Gestures13 Italy, Libya and the EU: co-dependent systems and interweaving imperial interests at the Mediterranean border – Alessandra Ferrini14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia: Australian debts to Gurindji economies – Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon15 Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development – Zenia KishPart VI: Play16 Eternal conflict: Sderot’s underground playground – Oded Nir17 I am your dividend – Ben StorkPart VII: Control18 ‘The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless’ – Laura Kalba19 Data Centre Séance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism – Jacquelene DrinkallPart VIII: Imaginaries20 Mesoamérica 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 BhattacharyyaIndex