Settler colonialism and/in (urban) Brazil: black and indigenous resistances to the logic of elimination

Poets, Desirée

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2020.1823750

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“…Or, to put it another way, Englert fails to see that a powerful tool of elite domination entails redirecting anti-elite resentment toward the indigenous and other non-elites, reframing the issue from rapacious elites to threatening Others. This oversight therein does not recognize the means of colonial domination as a contested if highly unequal terrain through which all non-elites can fight colonialism from within colonialism itself (Faragher, 2014;Poets, 2021;Scarritt, 2022;Slovo, 1997). It rather reifies the boundaries between non-elite groups.…”

Section: Challenging the Limiting Binaries Of Settler Colonial Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This leads into what Speed (2017: 783) calls the ‘largely unexamined premise’ of a land-labor dichotomy in settler colonial studies (Poets, 2021; Taylor, 2021). This holds that colonials want subaltern groups for either their land or their labor—but never both, and therein subject them to either extermination or exploitation, respectively.…”

Section: Challenging the Limiting Binaries Of Settler Colonial Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This oversight therein does not recognize the means of colonial domination as a contested if highly unequal terrain through which all non-elites can fight colonialism from within colonialism itself (Faragher, 2014; Poets, 2021; Scarritt, 2022; Slovo, 1997). It rather reifies the boundaries between non-elite groups.…”

Section: Challenging the Limiting Binaries Of Settler Colonial Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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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

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Section: Challenging the Limiting Binaries Of Settler Colonial Theorymentioning

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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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“…2 Europeans enslaved Indigenous and Black peoples in related but differentiated ways, as evidenced in the canonical debate between Las Casas and Sepúlveda (Wynter, 2003). 3 An emerging body of scholarship has shown how, in Latin America, this logic encompasses both Black and Indigenous peoples in distinct but related ways (Iyko Day, 2015;Kelley, 2017;Poets, 2021).…”

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“… 3 3 An emerging body of scholarship has shown how, in Latin America, this logic encompasses both Black and Indigenous peoples in distinct but related ways (Iyko Day, 2015; Kelley, 2017; Poets, 2021). …”

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Pacification as a key problem of politics in international political thought

Poets

2023

Global Policy

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This article is a response to Paul Kelly's discussion of Lenin and Mao in Conflict, War and Revolution: The problem of politics in international political thought (2022). Taking on a postcolonial perspective, it analytically expands how the book theorizes violence by understanding the violence of capitalist and colonial domination as a paradigm of war that structures pacified social relations and politics. The paper proposes that pacification, as a phenomenon that spans different kinds of modern nation‐states, begs for a distinct theory of violence in international political thought. In so doing, it places Marxism, Post Colonialism, Coloniality/Decoloniality, Settler Colonial Studies, Anglophone Indigenous thought, post‐structuralism and Brazilian Anthropology in conversation to reveal shared genealogies of anti‐colonial, decolonial and anti‐capitalist thought without uncritically collapsing these traditions.

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The Logics of Counterinsurgency Education and Resistance in Thirdspace

Andrabi¹

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies

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Settler colonialism and/in (urban) Brazil: black and indigenous resistances to the logic of elimination

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Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule

Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule

Pacification as a key problem of politics in international political thought

The Logics of Counterinsurgency Education and Resistance in Thirdspace

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