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Racial Capitalism in the History of Political Thought. This is a good occasion to take stock of the state of the subject in the field of political theory, though my take is admittedly bit of an outlier . Conference details 👇 uchv.princeton.edu/events/racia...

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#OpenAccess from our new issue - Law, time, and (in)justice after empire: Germany's objection to colonial reparations and the chronopolitics of deflection - cup.org/4fTQhFy - Sinja Graf

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International Theory - Volume 17 - Issue 1 - March 2025 - cup.org/3CUE0mz A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy #OpenAccess

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@antipodeonline.bsky.social has countless brilliant articles. This is the most read list over the past 12 months. From Robinson/Hall to profit repatriation and uneven development to Israel/Palestine to finance and extraction. Pick your choice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

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Me, staring at London's bleak skies: - No wonder they invented the pub. My partner: - Yeah, and the Spain.

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Racial Capitalism in the History of Political Thought Conference Princeton UCHV, 22 February. Details and program here: uchv.princeton.edu/.../racial-c.... Featuring Charisse Burden-Stelly, Inés Valdez, and others.

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Racial Capitalism in the History of Political Thought Conference Princeton UCHV, 22 February. Details and program here: uchv.princeton.edu/.../racial-c.... Featuring Charisse Burden-Stelly, Inés Valdez, and others.

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Recent reclamations of Smith as a skeptical cosmopolitan do so by overlooking his sanctioning of the visible hand of the imperial state to bring the recalcitrant within the fold of commercial civilization. 1/4

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When you suddenly start tearing through the air safety bureaucracy with an ax after two decades-plus of near perfect US commercial air safety any plane that suddenly careens out of the sky is probably on you.

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Nugget from the book I'm currently writing, attesting to the dynamics of capitalist racialization in the long 19th century: "In his 1902 Romanes Lecture on race relations, James Bryce argued, “for economic purposes, all mankind is fast becoming one people, in which the hitherto backward nations ...

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Chinese censorship is written into DeepSeek’s code

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Huge if true. “I thought the AI chatbots would do a lot better,” said del Rio-Chanona, corresponding author of the study and assistant professor at University College London. “History is often viewed as facts, but sometimes interpretation is necessary to make sense of it.”

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Ever alive to the prospect of the tired but convenient charge of "reductionism" flying from an audience member, I always have this slide handy in my deck. With enduring thanks to @kjhealy.co.

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#OpenAccess - Law, time, and (in)justice after empire: Germany's objection to colonial reparations and the chronopolitics of deflection - cup.org/4fTQhFy - Sinja Graf #FirstView

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"There are different types of reason for capitulating to Trump, and an excellent guide to the typology is the historian Niall Ferguson." - @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

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Today is the day! Delighted that this is out! Co-authored with Amitav Acharya @yalepress.bsky.social 1/n yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Got a new essay in @dissentmag.bsky.social on secrecy havens. The culture of impunity that secrecy fosters has profoundly damaging effects on social&political fabrics especially in places that were turned into tax havens in the context of empire/decolonization www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nobl...

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A brilliant article on how the German state mobilizes international law to resist colonial reparation claims. Out now in @internatltheory.bsky.social, #OpenAccess.

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Ever alive to the prospect of the tired but convenient charge of "reductionism" flying from an audience member, I always have this slide handy in my deck. With enduring thanks to @kjhealy.co.

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Final day at the @biapt.bsky.social political thought conference, starting with a terrific keynote by @ulasince.bsky.social on his new project 'Before the Colour Line" #BIAPT2025

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Had a bracing conversation at @biapt.bsky.social 2025 on why political theorists should take political economy seriously.

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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

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The AGPT is now on Bluesky! We are an intercollegiate network for scholarship on political ideas within international society and global contexts, based at Harvard University & partner institutions. For more about us and our seminars and conferences see: globalpoliticalthought.hsites.harvard.edu

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I have tried to outline a "capital theory of race" here. The paper's historical argument in a nutshell: "even though the panic over the “yellow peril” was coded in the language of insurmountable difference, that is, race, the social logic of that threat was one of equivalence, that is, capital."

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If Nelson Algren came back to life, he might try to do justice to this interview. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-intervi...

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Re: the academic habit of confusing life with work, I imagine the following exchange - What are you working on? - I'm moving the bathroom in a Victorian conversion. You? - I'm rewiring the electrical in a council flat. - Oh, I'm thinking of rewiring a flat one day. Maybe we should do some co-wiring.

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Democracy dies in whatever the fuck this is.

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This is a striking figure. www.ft.com/content/abec...

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From our new issue: "From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire" by Onur Ulas Ince. #ASPRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I have tried to outline a "capital theory of race" here. The paper's historical argument in a nutshell: "even though the panic over the “yellow peril” was coded in the language of insurmountable difference, that is, race, the social logic of that threat was one of equivalence, that is, capital."

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My critique of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's colonial history of development is out in the latest issue of International Relations. Their dichotomy of inclusionary vs. extractive institutions do not survive the history of actually existing capitalism in slavery, imperialism, and settlerism.

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The book review we all dream of writing one day: "This is a book that clatters around in a dark closet of irrelevancies for 450 pages before it bumps accidentally into its index and stops."

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"... research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, published in 2023, concluded that parental earnings are a much stronger predictor of incomes for those born in the 1970s and after, than they were for previous generations." www.ft.com/content/4b7e...

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This is a very valuable attempt to bring some conceptual clarity and consistency to the emergent field of racial capitalism, the conceptual disarray of which leaves it open to dismissal. I highly recommend it along with Go's previous essay, "Three Tensions of Racial Capitalism."

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Ranging from antislavery to Amnesty International this collection on the relationships between humanitarianism & empire is now available in paperback. Dedicated to our late, brilliant, colleague & friend Trevor Burnard. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182418/

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In today's edition of Bond Markets Do The Funniest Things China’s long-term bond yields have been trading below Japan’s, in a historic switch-around, as CGB investors buy haven assets and deflationary trends set in "Nineties Japan remains the playbook" says one www.ft.com/content/d299...

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We can’t understand the geography of capitalism in our present moment without seeing how these old industries overlap with the new. "Two Towns" features an interactive map showing how ex-industrial towns were not “left behind” but actively made into havens for low-paid work.

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My article on the political economy of anti-Chinese racism is out in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (open access). The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇

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Book is published! Everything you always wanted to know about property in German Idealism but were afraid to ask.

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