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CFP 22 - Regular: Colonial Racial Capitalism Today: Spectacularization, Dispossession, and Resistance
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Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study

Organizers &

Presiders: Nicolas Juarez, University of Michigan
Marta M. Maldonado, Oregon State University
Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University

Description: 

Overt and spectacularized forms of colonial and racial dispossession have become increasingly common in the United States (e.g., the White House’s use of AI imagery to depict alligators in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uniforms; federal agents deployed into cities to “hunt down” immigrants). These acts have gone hand in hand with new forms of dispossession and privatization, such as the expansion of drilling on federal land and increased disinvestment in public institutions. This session invites work that examines the connections between spectacularized forms of extra-economic violence and dispossession in the current era of colonial racial capitalism. It also invites work that examines and/or implements innovative resistance strategies and possibilities.

Papers:

“World-Economy and Global Supply Chains: Theoretical Background,” David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine

“‘Were They Coming Back For Revenge?’: State Violence and Indigenous Stereotypes in Minnesota Ghost Stories,” Kevin Revier, SUNY Cortland

“Alienation in the Colonial Context of Palestine: The Occupied Laborers in Israel as a Case Study,” Vilitcia Barghouti, Michigan State University

“Children’s Perceptions of Conflict after October 7, 2023: An Analysis of Drawings Collected from the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme between 2024–2025,” Uzma H. Chowdhury, Teachers College, Columbia University

“Infrastructures of Pain, Disorientation, and Dispersal: How the Unhoused Navigate Hostile Architecture in Washington, DC,” Ganesh A. Bhojwani, Denison University

“Freedom Doing: Abolitionist Movement Narratives in the U.S., 1820–2023,” Jadelynn C. Zhang, Emory University

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