Global Perspectives on Racial Capitalism

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: ASJE019 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish

This session invites submissions on Racial Capitalism in a broad sense. Contributions are invited that study Racial Capitalism both within and beyond the Atlantic Triangle. What shapes did Racial Capitalism take in and between colonies in Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas, and which factors and mechanisms contributed to different expressions of it in different locations? What can we learn from early theorists on racial capitalism in various locations in the Global South, such as the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, or Latin America? How can comparing the phenomenon between different regions enrich our understanding of it? In which forms is Racial Capitalism ongoing today, and which strategies should we pursue to dismantle it?
Session Organizer:
Caroline SCHOEPF, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines
Oral Presentations
On Racial Capitalism, Remaindered Life, Ken Dagiti Ballasiw-Taaw: The Accounts of Ilokano Sakada Recruits to Hawaii in the Essay “Departures” By Priscilla Supnet Macansantos and the Documentary “ the Sakada Series” By Maribel Apuya.
Benjamin SUMABAT AMBROS KING, Philippines; Latrell FELIX, Philippines
Infrastructures and Infrapolitics in Racial Capitalism: Refugees’ Contested Inclusion and Intermediation on a German Labour Market
Mouna MAAROUFI, University Hamburg, Germany
New Dynamics of Racialised Labour Disciplining in Central and Eastern Europe
Barbora CERNUSAKOVA, United Kingdom; Angela KOCZE, Central European University, Hungary
The Resilience of Racial Regimes: How Crises Perpetuate Racial Inequality in Cultural and Creative Industries
Roaa ALI ALI-MOORE, United Kingdom
Denaturalisation and Modernity: Drugs and Racial Capitalism
Luisa FARAH SCHWARTZMAN, University of Toronto, Canada; Anne POLLOCK, King's College London, United Kingdom
“Parents Just Want Foreign Teachers”: Chinese Women Quietly Resisting the White Profitability of the English Language Industry
Shuling WANG, University of Southampton, China
Analysing the “Ordinary Extractivism” of British Elite Schools Overseas Branches through the Lens of Racial Capitalism: Epistemic, Social and Racial Justice Implications
Aline COURTOIS COURTOIS, University of Bath, United Kingdom; Michael DONNELLY, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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