Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism

Nyhet

Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvBarbora Cernušáková,Barbora Cernusáková

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Surplus lives under racial capitalism is a critical contribution to the study of racial capitalism. It theorises the link between political economy, anti-Roma racism and modern forms of white supremacy in East Central Europe. The book shows how the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers. Since then, their surplusing recurrently comes into sharp relief during the time of crisis. Surplus lives under racial capitalism is built on an investigation of how race and class structure the Czech labour regime and how they form a single site of struggle. One which binds workers across racialised divisions as surplusing continuously expands.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-04-28
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Ethnographies
Antal sidor200
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526181879

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‘Quite simply, this book is extraordinary. The text is coherent, theoretically and analytically rich, and above all, readable. The theoretical grounding for the book is complex, but the author unpacks her main arguments about racial capitalism and surplus populations lucidly and in an understandable manner.’ – Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Masaryk University, Czech Republic‘This book forcefully re-centres race and class in East-Central European and post-socialist scholarship. By bridging Marxian accounts of reserve armies of labour with theories of racial capitalism, Cernušáková provides a crucial lens on contemporary capitalist racialisation and the Roma question.’ – Sara Farris, Goldsmiths University of London