Seminar: ‘Structural’ racism: from repair to reparations and back again
From the Reciprocity Study Group, we invite you to the seminar series Capitalisme Racial, Fronteres i Migracions.
Second session.
Next Wednesday, December 4th at 12 noon we will hold the second session of the seminar Racial Capitalism, Borders and Migrations
At Seminari d’Antropologia, Facultat de Geografia i Història 2nd floor
This time we welcome Nick Clare who recently wrote the article “Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations” together with Nigel de Noronha, Shaun French and Richard Goulding.
The title of the seminar is: ‘Structural’ racism: from repair to reparations and back again
Here you also have the abstract and his biography:
Abstract
Social housing is a key locus of racial capitalism. Through sustained, organised abandonment we not only witness racialised processes of accumulation, but with high profile cases such as the Grenfell Tower disaster, catastrophic state-sanctioned premature death. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in the UK, this paper draws on abolitionist understandings of ‘repair’ to argue the case for social housing reparations. This has a dual purpose. On the one hand the focus on housing grounds and adds important nuance to the increasingly capacious racial capitalism literature. While on the other, it provides a necessarily radical demand for social housing tenants and activists, for whom racism is quite literally ‘structural’.
Biography
Nick Clare is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK. His current research focuses on the links between race, class, and housing disadvantage in the UK, with a particular emphasis on tenant resistance. Nick draws heavily on autonomist Marxist frameworks and militant methodologies in his work, having previously explored migrants’ territorial subjectivities and politics in Buenos Aires.
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