EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES: after the "peaceful violence" of neoliberal coloniality
Trafford, James (2019) EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES: after the "peaceful violence" of neoliberal coloniality. Angelaki, 24 (1). pp. 37-54.
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This article considers neoliberalism through the "peaceful violence" of its social spaces that are stratified and ordered around raciality whilst abjuring the explicit presence of racialised power. Many dominant analyses of neoliberalism in the social science have figured racial injustices as ideological fossils to be swept away by a fundamentally neutral political economy that has shaped all human activity according to market principles. As such, racial injustices are understood as material deviations from conditions of economic power on the one hand, and cultural deviations in hegemonic common sense on the other. Against the grain of these approaches, I argue that racialised power is better understood as a productive technology fundamental to the structuring of our worlds, their neoliberal organisation just one iteration of ongoing coloniality. Contrary to popular analysis and this account of neoliberalism, contemporary racialised violence and nationalist discourse are, therefore, not only consistent with the power of neoliberal classes but also result from weaknesses in their hegemonic power.
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities on 12 February 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0969725X.2019.1568732
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