Introduction

Hall, Catherine; Draper, Nicholas; McClelland, Keith

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“…It is, of course, morally troubling to pay slaveowners to end their inhumane practice, effectively recognizing the right to own slaves and rewarding the perpetrators of exploitation and oppression. The fact that this compensation has been an important source of inherited wealth and privilege in Britain, and remains so nearly two centuries later, may heighten such moral concerns (Draper, 2010; Hall et al ., 2014). It might be a mitigating factor that this compensation was a transfer between beneficiaries of an unjust system, given that the taxpayers who funded it had knowingly consumed cheap goods produced by slave labour (Levy and Peart, 2005: 124–127, 2018: 14–15), but this cannot assuage all moral qualms.…”

Section: Slavery and Abolition Within Politics-as-exchangementioning

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Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics

Meadowcroft

2023

Journal of Institutional Economics

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James M. Buchanan's politics-as-exchange retrospectively conceptualized formal institutions emerging from bilateral agreements to establish reciprocal rights and prospectively guided constitutional entrepreneurs to broker Pareto-superior reforms that had unanimous consent. Buchanan believed this conceptualization of politics-as-exchange was necessitated by his ontological–methodological individualism and would initiate a new era of consensual politics, but it is argued it led to illiberal conclusions that reflected dissonance between his Kantian individualism and Humean subjectivism. It meant, for example, that slavery was characterized as a bilateral agreement between very unequal parties and it is argued it logically implied abolition required the consent of slaveowners. But Buchanan's ontology was compatible with the introduction into his framework of a right of exit that would have differentiated between exchanges with and without the sword to produce a consistent liberal constitutionalism.

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Section: Slavery and Abolition Within Politics-as-exchangementioning

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Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics

Meadowcroft

2023

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Intersectionality, nationalisms, biocoloniality

Narayan

2018

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The early twenty-first century is marked by new postcolonial nationalist ideologies and their indifference to modern histories of colonisation and the urgent need for antinationalist theories of racialised subjectification. I discuss the importance of work on 'intersectionality' and consider how some theoretical formations reproduce core elements of 'common sense' nationalisms such as universal, fixed racial categories, the gender binary and the idea of separate cultures. I then argue for a transdisciplinary theory of racialised subjectivity that I call 'biocoloniality'.

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Civitas sine suffragio : a new (old) concept for critical geopolitics

Welsh

2023

Space and Polity

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Introduction

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Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics

Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics

Intersectionality, nationalisms, biocoloniality

Civitas sine suffragio : a new (old) concept for critical geopolitics

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