Subject to labor: Racial capitalism and ontology in the post-emancipation Caribbean

Lewis, Jovan Scott

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.007

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“…Yet the geologic and inorganic are always already bound to Blackness as the limit point that defines the mutability between definitions of the human and nonhuman (Jackson, 2020). Blackness and anti-Blackness make possible the very invention of the geologic as a site of knowledge (Lewis, 2022; Saldanha, 2020; Yusoff, 2018). We discuss how conditions of Blackness have onto-epistemological effects on the geologic/inorganic which forms the onto-epistemological ground from which biological life (including so-called human life) emerges.…”

Section: Rethinking Life and Its Excessesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies

Liebman

Katz

Marston

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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In this review, we read the interdisciplinary traffic across critical human geography and feminist science and technology studies (FSTS) in light of the insights and destabilizing aporias—in other words, irresolvable contradictions or logical disjunctions—emerging from Black radical and feminist study. We highlight three thematic areas that have received sustained attention and debate and that resonate across the three fields: objectivity and subjectivity, agency, and life and its excesses. Inspired by the methodological provocations of Katherine McKittrick’s Dear Science and the political demands of multiple intellectual currents within Black studies, we venture a modest upending of the form of the review itself. Rather than seek to delineate and codify contributions to a scholarly debate, we point to troubled assumptions and potential openings for those working at the intersection of critical human geography, FSTS, and Black studies.

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Section: Rethinking Life and Its Excessesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies

Liebman

Katz

Marston

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In a recent Progress article, Bledsoe (2021) traces these antecedents to the work of Harold Rose and Bill Bunge, arguing that the focus on question of what we call racial capitalism today emerged in the 1990s with the work of Bobby Wilson, Clyde Woods, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. These scholars offer understandings of urban geography as predicated on segregation and racial capitalism (Wilson, 2019), the overriding plantation logics of the south and the life‐making processes of Black people (Lewis, 2020; Woods, 1998), and the prison‐industrial complex's need for cheap labor within an economic system stratified by a racial hierarchy (Gilmore, 2007). Pulido (2017) notes that more and more scholars, especially political ecologists, have become interested in questions of racial capitalism over the past decade.…”

Section: Black Geographies and Racial Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward healthier futures in post‐pandemic times: Political ecology, racial capitalism, and black feminist approaches to care

Neely

Lopez

2022

Geography Compass

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The COVID‐19 pandemic and state violence converged in the U.S. in 2020 highlighting the uneven distribution of illness and death. In this article, we mobilize three bodies of literature–political ecologies of health and the body, Black geographies and racial capitalism, and Black feminist work on care—to understand the disproportionate impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian people, and to imagine different, more just futures. We argue that these literatures center relationships, enabling an analysis that incorporates viruses and cellular processes, histories of racism, power differences, and political economy. We conclude by taking inspiration from the uprisings and Black feminism to envision a more caring future that nurtures relationships.

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“…The term "racial capitalism" was introduced by Cedric Robinson in his in uential book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Much of the recent scholarly discourse on racial capitalism is based on this seminal work, which draws from literature related to the Black experience in North America and the Caribbean (Bledsoe & Wright, 2019;Lewis, 2022). The discourse emphasizes the fundamental idea that capitalism has been deeply rooted in and reliant on racial distinctions since its emergence from feudalism (Robinson, 2000).…”

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Spatial Analysis of Racial Capitalism and COVID-19 in Louisiana

Oh,

Thakkar

2024

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Background . Louisiana has experienced one of the highest COVID-19 burdens in the United States. This article seeks to investigate the geospatial pattern of COVID-19 in Louisiana using the perspective of racial capitalism. Methods . Using data from the Louisiana Department of Health and American Community Survey, we employed spatial autoregressive models to assess how racial income disparity between White and Black residents connected to COVID-19 cases in Louisiana parishes, controlling for other parish-level characteristics. Results . Greater racial income disparity between White and Black residents yielded more COVID-19 cases in Louisiana parishes. A rise in income had a buffering effect on the role of racial income disparity aggravating COVID-19 severity. Conclusions . African Americans from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were likely at a higher risk of COVID-19 in the state of Louisiana. Based on Louisiana's unique historical and sociocultural contexts, implications are further discussed.

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Subject to labor: Racial capitalism and ontology in the post-emancipation Caribbean

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies

Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies

Toward healthier futures in post‐pandemic times: Political ecology, racial capitalism, and black feminist approaches to care

Spatial Analysis of Racial Capitalism and COVID-19 in Louisiana

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