Tudor, Alyosxa and Rexhepi, Piro (2021) Connecting the “posts” to confront racial capitalism’s coloniality. In: Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice. Taylor and Francis, pp. 193-208. ISBN 9780367434403
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This chapter is a conversation on racial capitalism in contemporary post-socialist politics. Our dialogue examines the contradictions and challenges of the post-socialist position within transnational anti-racist solidarity in the face of emboldened structural and situational forms of violence that have come to dominate formerly socialist spaces. Moving through queer, trans and decolonial interventions, we explore how the temporality of the “post” prefix not only conceals the connections and continuities between colonial and cold war projects and contemporary racial capitalism but also advances a colorblind narrative of Europeanness that seeks to recruit the postsocialist subject in the ongoing racial, classed and gendered (geo)politics of EU borderization. We also discuss how these forms of postsocialist theorization have frequently contributed to the contradictions between the aspirational whiteness of the fascist movements in Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria and the precarious position of postsocialist labor migrants in the EU. Finally, we reflect on the possibilities of transnational anti-fascist and anti-racist alignments that could confront racial capitalism and coloniality at large.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Alyosxa Tudor and Piro Rexhepi. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2025 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2025 16:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129608 |
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