Life from the fragments: Ambivalence, critique, and minoritarian affect

Eleanor Wilkinson; Jason Lim

doi:10.1177/2043820621995627

Life from the fragments: Ambivalence, critique, and minoritarian affect

Dialogues in Human Geography ◽

10.1177/2043820621995627 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 112-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eleanor Wilkinson ◽

Jason Lim

Keyword(s):

Power Domination ◽

Racial Capitalism

In this commentary, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford. We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable discussions of power, domination, and violence. We offer a reading of the relations between affirmation and negativity through ‘minoritarian affects’ – a reading that arises in the midst of living through racial capitalism, coloniality, patriarchy, and heteronormativity and which builds an indeterminate future from the fragments of our lives and bodies.

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Minimizing Missed Opportunities: Modeling Relationships between the State and Business in Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2009-7-42-61 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 42-61

Author(s):

A. Oleynik

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Common Good ◽

The State ◽

Power Relationships ◽

Individual Decision ◽

Missed Opportunities ◽

Power Domination ◽

Individual Decision Making ◽

Optimal Outcomes

Power involves a number of models of choice: maximizing, satisficing, coercion, and minimizing missed opportunities. The latter is explored in detail and linked to a particular type of power, domination by virtue of a constellation of interests. It is shown that domination by virtue of a constellation of interests calls for justification through references to a common good, i.e. a rent to be shared between Principal and Agent. Two sources of sub-optimal outcomes are compared: individual decision-making and interactions. Interactions organized in the form of power relationships lead to sub-optimal outcomes for at least one side, Agent. Some empirical evidence from Russia is provided for illustrative purposes.

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Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.166 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jeff Chang ◽

Daniel Martinez HoSang ◽

Soya Jung ◽

Chandan Reddy ◽

Alex Tom

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Mass Culture ◽

Police Officers ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

The State ◽

Racial Capitalism

We chose to frame this conversation in terms of crisis: not only the state of permanent crisis created by racial capitalism and settler colonialism but also specific flashpoints like Sa-I-Gu [the Korean term for the April 1992 uprising in Los Angeles after the acquittal of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating]. We want to look at the conditions surrounding these flashpoints and the responses to them that then shaped race consciousness and politics subsequently. Today we have no shortage of crisis, no shortage of flashpoints. And yet there is hope. Perhaps more than at any other time in my lifetime, there are opportunities to shift mass culture, at the very least to popularize and normalize a slightly more critical consciousness. So now I want to turn to my friends here to talk about crisis and multiracial politics. We’ll start with Sa-I-Gu and work forward to this moment and also to future possibilities.

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Resisting racial militarism: War, policing and the Black Panther Party

Security Dialogue ◽

10.1177/0967010621997220 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 096701062199722 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nivi Manchanda ◽

Chris Rossdale

Keyword(s):

Vietnam War ◽

Political Violence ◽

Black Panther Party ◽

Racial Capitalism ◽

The Social ◽

The Us ◽

Liberal Societies ◽

Police Action ◽

Black Panther

The past ten years have witnessed a revival in scholarship on militarism, through which scholars have used the concept to make sense of the embeddedness of warlike relations in contemporary liberal societies and to account for how the social, political and economic contours of those same societies are implicated in the legitimation and organization of political violence. However, a persistent shortcoming has been the secondary role of race and coloniality in these accounts. This article demonstrates how we might position racism and colonialism as integral to the functioning of contemporary militarism. Centring the thought and praxis of the US Black Panther Party, we argue that the particular analysis developed by Black Panther Party members, alongside their often-tense participation in the anti–Vietnam War movement, offers a strong reading of the racialized and colonial politics of militarism. In particular, we show how their analysis of the ghetto as a colonial space, their understanding of the police as an illegitimate army of occupation and, most importantly, Huey Newton’s concept of intercommunalism prefigure an understanding of militarism premised on the interconnections between racial capitalism, violent practices of un/bordering and the dissolving boundaries between war and police action.

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Racial Capitalism and Racial Intimacies: Post-Emancipation British Guiana in David Dabydeen’s The Counting House

Interventions ◽

10.1080/1369801x.2021.1892516 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Najnin Islam

Keyword(s):

British Guiana ◽

Racial Capitalism

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Mapping Logistical Capitalism

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276421990425 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026327642199042

Author(s):

Eugene Brennan

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

20Th Century ◽

Social Life ◽

Review Article ◽

Global Capitalism ◽

Racial Capitalism ◽

The Past ◽

Black Lives Matter ◽

Class Composition

This review article engages with a rich field of scholarship on logistics that has gathered momentum over the past decade, focusing on two new publications by Laleh Khalili and Martín Arboleda. It contextualizes how and why logistics is bound up with the militarization of contemporary political and social life. I argue that the later 20th century rise of logistics can be better understood as both a response to and symptom of capitalist crisis and I situate this scholarship on war and logistics in relationship to Giovanni Arrighi’s account of crisis and ‘unravelling hegemony’. I also show how logistics provides essential critical and visual resources that contribute to efforts to map global capitalism and to debates on totality and class composition in contemporary critical theory. Finally, contemporary events such as the ongoing Coronavirus crisis and the reemergence of Black Lives Matter are considered in light of this analysis with reference to the centrality of logistics to racial capitalism.

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