Militarized global apartheid
"In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global North are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global South. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them into new contexts to maintain this racialized global o…
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"In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global North are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global South. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them into new contexts to maintain this racialized global order. Whether using the language of security, military intervention, surveillance technologies, or detention centers and other forms of incarceration, these projects reinforce and consolidate the global North's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color. By drawing out how this new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of liberatory politics"--
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- Publication Date:©2020
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- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
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- Description:1 online resource (197 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1478013001, 9781478013006
- DOI:10.1515/9781478013006
- oclc:on1191457267
- LC Classification:JV6038
- Dewey Decimal:331.6/21724
Table of Contents
The Argument -- Belonging: Nativism and Racialization -- Plunder -- Containment: Identity Documentation and Refusal -- Labor -- Militarization -- Futures
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