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... of recognition and rights, situating them as a matter of both the expansive embrace of capitalism and its periodic restoration of limits along genealogical lines. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Legal, Tender The Genealogical Economy of Pride, Debt, and Origin Angela Mitropoulos...

... regimes, relations, and forms of debt, and in particular through debt imperialism. Debt imperialism is a kind of temporal exception. It is a multiscalar process through which the United States imposes imperial power by rolling over its significant national debt indefinitely and not conforming...

...Jodi A. Byrd; Alyosha Goldstein; Jodi Melamed; Chandan Reddy This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social...

...Kris Manjapra In 2015 the British government finally finished paying off the Slavery Abolition Act loan. For 180 years it had serviced debt created by the massive public borrowing of 1835, which was used to compensate British slave owners for the loss of their “slave property” during emancipation...

... on political imagination can, however, be largely overcome in the spirit of Marx (and Randy Martin) by using the conceptual resources of options theory itself. In options theory, for example, privately produced financial derivatives are priced as though a component of them is synthetic public debt (“risk-free...

.... If enslavement was defined by this spatial regime of suffocation, the early slave trade extended the grounds for racialization through extensive networks of credit and debt. This financial system established the parameters of enslavement and freedom, bridging shipboard and terrestrial social relations. Early...

...Joanne Barker This article addresses the coproduction of US imperialism, racism, and debt in the dispossession and indenture of Indigenous peoples. It does so by thinking through the 2008 subprime crisis within the context of the Occupy Wall Street movement and some of the scholarship...

... another social space. Finally, the article reflects on Margolles’s invitation to participate in performing her sculptures and on the circuits of debt, remittances, and gifts proffered by such intimate engagements with bodily and nonhuman life. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References...

... to dispossession’s rhythms and tempos, harmonies and dissonances, to its unrepeated melodies and its recurring, steady beats. In other words, in the writing of this piece, in the rehearsals that lie before it, 14 we accrue debts to one another that cannot be accounted for but can be and are felt, debts...

... into the workforce, immigrant influx, and erosion of union representation, wages fell for much of the workforce.20 With declining wages came swelling debt. Mortgage debt as a percentage of total home value jumped to 57.6% in 1990, up from 36.7% in 1980.21 More generally, the ratio...

..., keeps planning to study, keeps running to study, keeps studying a plan, keeps elaborating a debt. —Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons She studies, starting in the middle. She reads, always from the outside out. She speaks, stuttering from the edges of language. She fails, her work...

... times rolled not to support for the well-off, college debt spiraled out of control. Between 1992 and 1999, annual borrowing for students at four-year public colleges rose by their excesses, 65 percent, from $1,800 to $3,000...

...- ers’ debts; the notion that low cholesterol oils are good for you; anxieties about a falling stock market; anxieties about the Argentinean crisis.”20 The appropriate response is “risk and the place it has come to occupy in our...

... of Bretton Woods sought to make a virtue of disequilibrium, treating volatility and risk as productive forces in their own right for a glob- ally circulating economy of credit and debt. The social forces mobilized throughout the 1960s politicized the boundary between the public and the private, making...

... percent—higher than the total US unemployment rate during any historical period, including the Great Depression. 22. Ransby, “Response to Robin Kelley.” 23. We argue for debt relief for all, meaning we follow Abolition University's invitation in rejecting the student as an innocent...

... . Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide . Mona, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press . Best Stephen . 2012 . “On Failing to Make the Past Present.” Modern Language Quarterly 73 : 453 – 74 . Bittker Boris I. 2003 . The Case for Black...

... regime known as economy is and does, for none of those have gone away, any more than businesses have ceased to pursue profit and people been compelled to seek employment. Stuff still gets made and sold, even if through thickets of debt and credit; some...

... of debt. To stay afloat, he was always looking for new ways to monetize his output. Robb tells us that at one point he set up shop as a content provider, publishing how-tos and listicles on such topics as The Art of Settling One’s Debts and Satisfying One’s Creditors without Spending Any Money ; The Art...

... as Latin America’s so-called lost decade, ten years marked by an unprecedented downward spiral into debt, capital flight, low investment levels and—perhaps most directly damaging to Latin America’s citizens—unimaginable hyperinflation. Since much of the debt of Latin American countries had been held...

... forest, the oceans, the rare earth metals mine Technological resources: the data center as mine Human resources: migrant labor, the prison system, displaced agricultural workers, the “absolutely expendable” Financial resources: loans, mortgages, credit (predatory lending as debt harvesting...