Rezension
“In this wonderful collection of original essays, McCarthy and colleagues show us that colonisation is alive and thriving in our cities, schools and museums. Linking neoliberalism and global capital to new forms of expulsion, gross social inequalities and the normalising of dispossession,
Spaces of New Colonialism
shows us what the stakes are and why it matters.”
—Susan L. Robertson, University of Cambridge
“
Spaces of New Colonialism
with its unrelenting demands for academic and policy activism is an audacious model of critical scholarship from the Global South and North. Its literary artistry across the thesaurus spectrum, passionate urgency for the disenfranchised, and conceptual flow in the right proportions give it an ingenious interdisciplinarity. This book’s smart and original ‘new colonialism’ thesis will equal the enduring influence of Said’s
Orientalism
; it has the intellectual rigor to be taught and debated with the same classic status as Weber’s ‘bureaucratization,’ Deleuze’s ‘societies of control,’ and E. O. Wilson’s ‘consilience’.”
—Clifford Christians, Former Director of the Institute of Communications Research
“The spaces where future politics is prepared are facing a wave of corporate appropriation, fuelled by global capital and intensified nationalism, that threatens to rival the scandals of agribusiness and big pharma. This excitingly diverse collection on education, museums and cities around the world lifts the wraps on this new wave of colonial power, but also finds important new sources of hope: it will be a vital resource for academics and activists alike.”
—Nick Couldry, Coauthor,
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
“This rich and important collection brings together diverse transnational perspectives to consider some vital questions of our present moment. The essays offer a lucid examination of the ways in which colonial logics are perpetuated by the neoliberal global economy in the entangled spaces of the city, school and the museum. Bridging social domains and disciplines, the collection offers compelling insights and a timely intervention into our understanding of the cultural politics of nationalism and institutional spaces. The book represents global collaborative scholarship at its best.”
—Radha S. Hegde, New York University
Portrait
Cameron McCarthy is Communications Scholar and University Scholar in the Department of Educational Policy, Leadership and Organization (EPOL) and in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Koeli Moitra Goel is an independent researcher and writer from Chicago, who also devotes her time to community organizing and filmmaking. She holds a doctorate in Communications and Media from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koc University, Istanbul and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University.Warren Crichlow is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University. Brenda Nyandiko Sanya is Assistant Professor in Educational Studies, Colgate University.Bryce Henson is an Accountability, Equity, Climate, and Scholarship Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Identity in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.
