Economies of Dispossession

Addressing the relationship among empire, colonial dispossession, and racial capitalism is indispensable for understanding contemporary political and social life. This special issue addresses the ways in which financialization, debt, and expropriation today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. Theorizing dispossession through a materialist understanding of comparative racialization and imperial formation, this issue brings together scholars of critical indigenous studies and critical ethnic studies who seek to intervene in current debates on the crises and contradictions of capitalist accumulation.