The Entangled Legacies of Empire

Paul Gilbert is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex Clea Bourne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University Johnna Montgomerie is Professor of International Political Economy at King's College London -- .

Introduction – Paul Robert Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie


Part I: Blowouts
1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives – Imre Szeman
2 ‘Boom!' – Tracy Lassiter
3 Spillcam – Alysse Kushinski


Part II: Circulations
4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa: colonial and decolonial finance in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1860s–1890s – Catherine Comyn
5 Both sides of the coin: Lady Liberty and the construction of ‘the New Native’ on currency in Oregon’s colonial period – Ashley Cordes
6 Milo – Syahirah Abdul Rahman


Part III: Borders
7 ‘The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary' – Kathryn Medien
8 Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt – Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen and Kehinde Sorinmade
9 Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension – Christian Rossipal


Part IV: Emergence
10 ‘Afro-pessimism’ and emerging markets finance – Ilias Alami
11 Dreams of extractive development: reviving the Benguela Railway in central Angola – Jon Schubert
12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain – Linsey Ly


Part V: Gestures
13 Italy, Libya and the EU: co-dependent systems and interweaving imperial interests at the Mediterranean border – Alessandra Ferrini
14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia: Australian debts to Gurindji economies – Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon
15 Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development – Zenia Kish
Part VI: Play
16 Eternal conflict: Sderot’s underground playground – Oded Nir
17 I am your dividend – Ben Stork


Part VII: Control
18 ‘The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless’ – Laura Kalba
19 Data Centre Séance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism – Jacquelene Drinkall


Part VIII: Imaginaries
20 Mesoamérica Resiste: staging the battle over Mesoamerica – capitalist fantasies vs grassroots liberation – Debbie Samaniego and Felix Mantz
21 Extractive scars and the lightness of finance – Maria Dyveke Styve
22 Imagined maps of racial capitalism – Gargi Bhattacharyya
Index -- .