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Veranstaltungen von Nadja Spatzl

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Race and Colonialism in International Political Economy (Seminar)

Inhalt: Despite demands in- and outside of academia to pay (more) attention to the importance of race and colonialism in shaping past and contemporary societies, they remain at the margins of most disciplines and research fields. International Political Economy (IPE) is no exception to this, despite enduring colonial legacies e.g. in international trade and persistent racial economic inequalities. This seminar seeks to center race and colonialism in our understanding and analysis of historical and contemporary economic phenomena. In a first step, we therefore clarify why this neglect is an analytical problem. In a next step, we study different approaches that think together “the economy” and race as well as/ or colonialism and compare their analytical advantages and disadvantages. In this part of the seminar, we will familiarize ourselves with some of the debates around the significance of slavery, colonialism and racialization for the development of capitalism. In the last part of the seminar, we will apply our acquired theoretical knowledge to historical and contemporary empirical cases and processes, such as racialized markets or the emergence of tax havens in the Global South. A special emphasis will lie on a critical reflection of the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the provided literature, as well as the historical, political and theoretical context in which the authors have developed their arguments.