Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective

Miapyen, Buhari Shehu; Bozkurt, Umut

doi:10.1080/03056244.2022.2075722

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“…Instead, this work ultimately sees capitalists as invested in preserving life and not invested in destroying it-insinuating that these are antithetical, that capitalists cannot be simultaneously invested in preserving and destroying life (Go, 2021;Ralph and Singhal, 2019). Furthermore, as Robinson has been critiqued for elsewhere, he sees racial splintering beginning centuries before colonization and therein misses the particularly racemaking processes of colonialism addressed here (Conroy, 2023;Miapyen and Bozkurt, 2022;Walzer, 2020). However, as will help expand settler colonial studies, racial capitalism conceives of racialization not as a white-Other binary, but as a tool of elite domination over non-elites of all stripes.…”

Section: Challenging the Limiting Binaries Of Settler Colonial Theorymentioning

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Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule

Scarritt

2023

Critical Sociology

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How and why does colonial domination kill off the very labor it depends on? While settler colonial studies provide one of the only theorizations of the systemic elimination of populations, they see it as antithetical to labor exploitation, and thus cannot answer this question. I therefore build on recent critiques of settler colonial studies to develop the concept of racialized extractive labor regimes: race marking labor as disposable, as realizing value through expending workers’ lives. I then articulate these dynamics through a comparison of the highly divergent cases of early colonialism in Peru and what is now the United States, first across initial settlement and then as they shifted to racialization decades later. While settler colonial studies emphasize land acquisition as colonialism’s defining feature, my comparison reveals that elites’ drive for indelible inequality actually shapes colonial projects. And in order to maintain their vaunted positions, elites ultimately construct racialized extractive labor regimes that predicate their domination on the regularized elimination of racialized Others. This analysis therein provides new insights into the elitist nature of colonialism and the logics of elimination and racialization through which it runs.

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Section: Challenging the Limiting Binaries Of Settler Colonial Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule

Scarritt

2023

Critical Sociology

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Of Space and Alienation: South African stories of unfree life under racial capitalism

Barbosa

2022

Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

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Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture

Raeymaekers

2024

Environ Plan D

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This article addresses the question of migrant workers’ exploitation from a feminist political economy and critical race perspective. Overall, my analysis promotes a reinterpretation of workers’ exploitation beyond a narrow focus on labour and production, and towards a consideration of the active social differentiation and reproduction of the work force. Based on my analysis of Black African workers’ conditions in the Italian ‘tomato district’ of Northern Puglia and Basilicata, I argue that recent anti-gangmastering reforms have recalibrated existing tensions between formalizing and informalizing workers’ conditions, tensions that serve the double end of ensuring capital accumulation in agri-food production, while forcing racialized workers to take care of their social reproduction. Formalization, I argue, tends to drive a wedge between ‘productive labour’ and unpaid, ‘unproductive’ work, thus removing responsibility away from firms and state agencies to provide much-needed workers’ welfare. Informalization, I argue, represents a particular racializing dynamic of externalizing the cost of social reproduction to the workers and their extended social networks, who, in this manner, indirectly subsidize parallel circuits of accumulation.

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Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule

Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule

Of Space and Alienation: South African stories of unfree life under racial capitalism

Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture

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