Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State (FireWorks) - Hardcover

Bhattacharyya, Gargi; Elliott-Cooper, Adam; Balani, Sita; Nişancıoğlu, Kerem; Koram, Kojo; Gebrial, Dalia; El-Enany, Nadine; De Noronha, Luke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745342035 ISBN 13: 9780745342030

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2021

Synopsis

'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar

We are in a moment of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of authoritarian regimes, it is the lens of racism, and the politics of race, that offers the sharpest focus.

In Empire's Endgame, eight leading scholars make a powerful intervention in debates around racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the 'hostile environment' policy and Brexit referendum have thrown the centrality of race into sharp relief, discussions of racism have too often focused on individual behaviours. Foregrounding instead the wider political and economic context, the authors trace the ways in which the legacies of empire have been reshaped by global capitalism, the digital environment and the instability of the nation-state.

Engaging with movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, Empire's Endgame offers both an original perspective on race, media, the state and criminalisation, and a political vision that includes rather than expels in the face of crisis.

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About the Authors

Gargi Bhattacharyya is Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at University College London. Professor Bhattacharyya is the author of The Futures of Racial Capitalism (Polity, 2022), Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Traffick: The Illicit Movement of People and Things (Pluto, 2005), amongst other works.

Adam Elliott-Cooper is a Researcher in Social Sciences at Greenwich University. He is the author Black Resistance to British Policing (MUP).

Sita Balani is a lecturer in contemporary literature and culture at King's College London. She is the author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (Verso, 2021).

Kerem Nişancıoğlu is a Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London. He is the co-author of How the West Came to Rule (Pluto, 2015), and co-editor of Decolonising the University (Pluto, 2018). He also blogs at The Disorder of Things.

Kojo Koram is a lecturer at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (Pluto, 2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745342035
• ISBN 13: 9780745342030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240