Dispossession without Labour: Bridging Abolition and Decolonisation
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Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks makes two decisive interventions. First, it shifts our lens from the capital relation to the colonial relation, disarticulating the process of primitive accumulation to emphasise its component parts: dispossession and proletarianisation. To do so is to both liberate the concept from its European origins by centring those contexts in which dispossession is not followed by proletarianisation, and to pose the political unity of different forms of dispossession: of land (as in settler-colonialism) as well as labour (as in chattel slavery). Second, Coulthard draws convincingly upon Frantz Fanon, whose work is essential for grasping both colonialism and white supremacy, but crucially their complex interrelation.
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Coulthard Glen Sean ‘#IdleNoMore in Historical Context’ Decolonization 2012 December 24 available at: <https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/idlenomore-in-historical-context/>.
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Coulthard 2014.
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Maldonado-Torres 2008, p. 235.
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Fanon 2004, p. 50. For Coulthard’s intervention surrounding the Idle No More mobilisations, see Coulthard 2012.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 10.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 8.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 11.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 13.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 18.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 12.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 13.
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Coulthard 2014, pp. 15–16.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 25.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 31.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 33.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 43.
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Fanon 2004, p. 30.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 132.
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Dispossession without Labour: Bridging Abolition and Decolonisation
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Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks makes two decisive interventions. First, it shifts our lens from the capital relation to the colonial relation, disarticulating the process of primitive accumulation to emphasise its component parts: dispossession and proletarianisation. To do so is to both liberate the concept from its European origins by centring those contexts in which dispossession is not followed by proletarianisation, and to pose the political unity of different forms of dispossession: of land (as in settler-colonialism) as well as labour (as in chattel slavery). Second, Coulthard draws convincingly upon Frantz Fanon, whose work is essential for grasping both colonialism and white supremacy, but crucially their complex interrelation.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 813 | 111 | 11 |
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