Resisting Racial Capitalism
An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal

Excavates a global archive of refusal and ungovernability which challenges the statist political imagination of our time.

Ida Danewid (Author)

9781009125024, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 November 2023

278 pages
22.6 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.41 kg

'Recommended.' T. S. Martin, CHOICE

What does freedom mean without, and despite, the state? Ida Danewid argues that state power is central to racial capitalism's violent regimes of extraction and accumulation. Tracing the global histories of four technologies of state violence: policing, bordering, wastelanding, and reproductive control, she excavates an antipolitical archive of anarchism that stretches from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the borderlands of Europe, the poisoned landscape of Ogoniland, and the queer lifeworlds of Delhi. Thinking with a rich set of scholars, organisers, and otherworldy dreamers, Danewid theorises these modes of refusal as a utopian worldmaking project which seeks not just better ways of being governed, but an end to governance in its entirety. In a time where the state remains hegemonic across the Left–Right political spectrum, Resisting Racial Capitalism calls on us to dream bolder and better in order to (un)build the world anew.

Introduction: antipolitical dreamworlds
1. A most bourgeois ambition
2. Ode to utopia
3. War on dirt
4. Maps of apartheid
5. Of plunder and property
6. It runs in the family
Conclusion: the new society.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA]