History of Racial Capitalism in Africa: Violence, Ideology, and Practice

Phiri, Madalitso Zililo

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“…4 Yet 'development' as a Western project of modernization conceptualizes relative African poverty as the result of presumed African inferiority, and not due to global processes of racial capitalist exploitation. Attention to racialization therefore situates 'development', broadly conceived, as a project of white supremacy as it enforces and maintains global relations of racialized exploitation (Wilson 2012;Pierre 2020;Phiri 2020).…”

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White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali

Rahman

2023

Africa

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Muslim aid organizations are relatively new actors in the Western aid industry. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research with the UK-based NGO Islamic Relief, I explore the organization’s engagement with a school in need of repair in southern rural Mali that is also the site of a sacred shrine of importance to locals. I examine the contextual global logics of racialization that undergird different interpretations and practices of what it means to ‘do good’. Situating an understanding of ‘development’ in an analysis of global racial capitalism, I argue that, as an Islamically inspired aid organization based in the UK, Islamic Relief is both subject to anti-Muslim racism and complicit in a white-adjacent racialized project of ‘development’ in Africa. I foreground the whiteness of development to show how modernist development practice makes it impossible to see other ways of conceptualizing ‘doing good’ that are also deeply grounded in Islam.

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White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali

Rahman

2023

Africa

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“…However, this article posits: how does the generation of knowledge in comparative public policy studies aid in advancing scholarship that leads toward the imagination of a more democratic global social science? South Africa and Brazil offer compelling cases for comparison because they share important characteristics: histories of colonial domination, slavery, and anti-black racism, all of which have provided grounds for what today are highly unequal societies (Marx 1998;Horne 2007;Telles 2004;Phiri 2020aPhiri , 2020bPhiri , 2017.…”

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“…Neither country is a prototypical example of twenty-first-century progressive social policies of the global South. While progressive in design, the two countries' social policies are Phiri: Beyond Academic Imperialism in Comparative Studies of the Global South residual, failing to challenge the institutional legacies of anti-Black racism and Black genocide which are foundational to citizenship in both South Africa and Brazil (Magubane 1979;Phiri 2017Phiri , 2020aPhiri , 2020bNyoka 2016;Mamdani 2021). This article, however, problematises and critiques the colonially constructed paradigm that for knowledge to be considered 'true knowledge' it should be Western (Mignolo 2009(Mignolo , 2011.…”

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Beyond Academic Imperialism in Comparative Studies of the Global South: Methodological Reflections

Phiri¹

2022

JHEA

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Contemporary debates on decolonisation have reluctantly forced social scientists to engage with neglected debates on race and epistemology. This article recasts these debates through methodological reflections that compare South African and Brazilian social policies by centring the interpellations of racial capitalism, poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. I conducted forty- five in-depth interviews with beneficiaries of social assistance programmes such as social grants and Bolsa Familia and with policymakers in South Africa and Brazil. Both countries offer compelling cases for comparison because they share important characteristics. How does the generation of knowledge in comparative public policy aid in advancing methodological perspectives that lead towards an imagination of a more democratic global social science? I offer a methodological reflexivity that challenges academic imperialism and underscores the importance of how local questions have global relevance in advancing an agenda for knowledge decolonisation. I achieve this by critiquing the positivist tradition in comparative sociology.

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Old colonial power in new green financing instruments. Approaching financial subordination from the perspective of racial capitalism in renewable energy finance in Senegal

Haag

2023

Geoforum

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History of Racial Capitalism in Africa: Violence, Ideology, and Practice

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali

White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali

Beyond Academic Imperialism in Comparative Studies of the Global South: Methodological Reflections

Old colonial power in new green financing instruments. Approaching financial subordination from the perspective of racial capitalism in renewable energy finance in Senegal

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