查看更多>>摘要：I propose the concept of disciplinary urbanism to capture the Pakistani military's economic, political, and spatial strategies driving urbanisation in the rural-urban frontier in Lahore. Firstly, disciplinary urbanism accounts for the financial, spatial, and coercive strategies for acquiring agricultural land on the urban frontiers. I show how agrarian caste and class relationships are central to accumulating land values through the market and how such transformations create a new class of relative surplus populations along the axis of class, caste, and gender. Secondly, disciplinary urbanism elucidates the extensive application of militarised architectural practices and spatial discipline to enclose state and common lands while controlling surplus populations. I examine the methods used to control, securitise, and capture land and labour and the tactics employed to counter the challenges posed by the informal economic and political activities of the surplus populations, which are controlled differentially based on class, caste, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship.
查看更多>>摘要：In this paper, we delve into a contentious issue within commoning literature: the role of money in anticapitalist strategy and praxis. Focusing on German Gemeinsame OEkonomie ("Common Economies"), income sharing groups in the radical left, we examine the boundaries of money as a transformative tool and the social relations cultivated through commoning money. By militantly engaging with individuals who pool their finances into shared bank accounts, the paper explores the operational dynamics and underlying rationale of Common Economies along three analytical and political categories that form our proposed commoning anticapitalist strategy. First, individual commoners and processes of subjectivation that can potentially reconfigure common senses. Second, communities and the very contentious process of boundary-making as a balance between subsistence and political potential. And third, the accumulation of collective capacities and their deployment to articulate a commons autonomy aiming to overcome the capitalist organisation of life. Situating money commoning within the framework of reproductive commoning, we argue that Common Economies do not see money sharing as an end in-itself, but as a means that allows them to liberate collective work and direct it towards radical anticapitalist action. Finally, we analyse the shortcomings of Common Economies as a commoning anticapitalist strategy: a lack of internal diversity of the groups, the challenge of upscaling, and the inherent contradictions of using money in trying to overcome capitalism. This investigation contributes to a nuanced understanding of money as a capitalist tool that can be hacked to rebuild reproductive commons in the Global North.
查看更多>>摘要：The response to climate change is orchestrated by international organisations, reflecting the global challenge and collaborative response. There is an established critique that this process is depoliticised—where institutions, policies, and practices foreclose contestation. This paper explores the downstream effects of this, where global knowledge practices intersect with national climate change planning. I nuance the concept of depoliticisation, drawing on the South African experience with the Green Climate Fund. I argue that there is an urgency framing, underlaid by scientific and financial rationales, which is willingly enacted by domestic actors. This limits the scope and participation in climate finance, empowering unevenly, rather than voiding politics. These effects are demonstrated by bringing together the depoliticisation literature with civic epistemology, to clarify how the epistemic geography of climate change in South Africa formulates, contests, and deploys knowledge. Re-politicisation is evident within the limits of urgency which is missed in depoliticisation literature.
查看更多>>摘要：Scholars have hitherto tended to theorise China's ecological civilisation project either as a form of environmental authoritarianism or as a vision of eco-socialism. This paper contributes to the conversation by conducting a textual analysis of Chinese scholarly discussions on eco-civilisation. The analysis uncovers topics and themes related to both narratives of environmental authoritarianism and eco-socialist envisioning. It also captures the shift in discussion from an ideological critique of industrial civilisation to a techno-bureaucratic agenda concerning sustainable development and governance strategies, along with the growing roles of the party-state, state-corporate cooperation, and geopolitical ambition. To interpret the findings, I revisit the neo-Weberian institutionalist notion of embedded autonomy and revise it through critical realist Marxism, not only to explain the growing bureaucratisation of eco-civilisation but also to untangle its Hobbesian institutional features that distinguish China's eco-civilisation project (or the making of a Climate Leviathan) from the Western liberal mode of environmental governance.
查看更多>>摘要：Focusing on training for African diplomats from newly independent countries in Cameroon, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, this paper makes the case for spaces of diplomatic training as sites for anticolonial "worldmaking" (Getachew 2019; Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination). Recent scholarship has highlighted the value of African leaders' visions but largely overlooked the actors, spaces, and practices through which these visions were to be enacted. Drawing on archival evidence from Africa, Europe, and North America, and oral history interviews, we argue that worldmaking projects were grounded, learnt, and transformed in places such as the classrooms and study tours we explore. Whilst many accounts of anticolonial and subaltern geopolitical projects focus on grassroots activism beyond and against the state, we argue we also need to attend to the contributions of those—like African diplomats in training—who critiqued Eurocentric and colonial international relations from subaltern positions whilst remaining privileged within the context of the postcolonial state.
查看更多>>摘要：Since 7 October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to unprecedented Israeli genocidal violence that has erased its life-supporting infrastructure. To understand how Gazans navigated these catastrophic conditions—or what we call "infrastructural elimination"— by inventing ephemeral practices using scarce materials at hand, the paper examines "fitful infrastructures". We scrutinise the material formation of three infrastructural practices: constructing makeshift toilets for tents, water collection and management practices, and improvised methods of generating electricity. Fitful infrastructure, we argue, (i) comprehends infrastructure through what its absence and elimination incapacitates, (ii) centres the material practices of the bombed rather than the logic of bombing in thinking the forced reformation of everyday dwelling/survival, and importantly (iii) highlights, without glorification, fragile and volatile infrastructures as material manifestations of life irreducible to aims of the settler colonial state to eliminate conditions that support it.
Sierra DeutschBram BuescherRobert CoatesLaila Sandroni...
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查看更多>>摘要：The brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying the contemporary rise of authoritarianism have garnered much interest in academic and popular media. A key question is how to make sense of a politics that seems nonsensical? Using the example of Brazilian governance under Bolsonaro, we combine and build on elite studies, authoritarian neoliberalism, and the double movement literature to address this question. We argue for the conceptualisation of an "elite schism" where a "new elite" is emerging to obfuscate an increasingly co-constitutive and mutually destructive double movement. In defiance of well-established elite etiquette, many of these "new elites" demolish socioecological protections with reckless abandon. We then show how this development upsets double movement dynamics to argue that the contemporary authoritarian trend is part of a broader reshuffling of social relations as market expansion pushes societies closer to socioecological collapse. We conclude by highlighting potential opportunities for resistance.
查看更多>>摘要：Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others. This paper examines how corridors are constructed through dialectical processes of enclosure and opening, involving the enclosure of land, livelihoods, and social relations alongside the opening of spaces for speculation and accumulation, which we argue constitute corridorisation. Central to this process is abstraction, which transforms corridors into commodities, obscuring inherent contradictions and violence. Drawing on Marx's concept of commodity fetishism, we analyse corridors in Indonesia and Laos to trace the processes and effects of corridorisation. By exposing the fetishisation of corridors, this paper unmasks the hidden social relations and uneven impacts underpinning their development, shedding light on who and what is excluded from these visions of progress.
查看更多>>摘要：Scholarship on the Filipinx diaspora has tended to be framed through the analytic of labour. Such dominant framings of the Filipinx diaspora tend to set parameters for a diasporic politics that rests on normative citizenship categories. In this paper, I look to the everyday ways Filipinos navigate their lives outside the boundaries of labour. Engaging with interviews conducted on the unceded territories of the Lheidli T'enneh peoples (aka Prince George, British Columbia, Canada), I propose that there are queer ways of disentangling labour configurations by paying attention to the everyday negotiations of Filipinx people. I highlight two ways that Filipinx peoples on Lheidli T'enneh territories show where we might decentre labour as the main way the Filipinx diaspora is theorised. First, I look at the ways in which they turn to the people and places they come from in the Philippines while abroad. Second, I attend to the manner by which Filipinx people approach and appreciate Indigenous sovereignties. I argue that, taken together, their commitments to the people and places they come from and their turning towards Indigenous sovereignties, form starting points that allow for political subjectivities not squarely attached to labour and normative notions of citizenship.
查看更多>>摘要：Libertarian city projects are emerging as a new trend in capitalist urbanisation. One aspect about this trend is their location in rural Global South regions. The former raises questions about the role of these projects in the global land grab. This paper analyses the connection of libertarian city projects and land dispossession through the case of Bitcoin City in El Salvador. Data from news reports, surveys, and cadastral records show that the land dispossession associated with Bitcoin City is connected to a speculative dynamic generated by the project's intensive publicity. The media spectacle created by this publicity is intensifying pre-existing land grabbing patterns oriented toward the construction of real estate projects. I argue that this phenomenon is a result of the ruling elite's attempt to construct a strategy of economic growth around a logic of financial accumulation. To explain the rationality behind this effort and its material impacts, I introduce the concept of fictitious development.
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