The Empire at Home : Internal Colonies and the End of Britain （Library Binding）

Trafford, James

Pluto Press（2020/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745340999
• DDC分類 320.941

Full Description

Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad.

Here, James Trafford develops the notion of internal colonies, arguing that methods and structures used in colonial rule are re-deployed internally in contemporary Britain in order to recreate and solidify imperial power relations. Using examples including housing segregation, targeted surveillance and counter-insurgency techniques used in the fight against terrorism, Trafford reveals Britain's internal colonialism to be a reactive mechanism to retain British sovereignty.

As politics appears limited by nationalism and protectionism, The Empire at Home issues a powerful challenge to contemporary politics, demanding that Britain as an imperial structure must end.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. The Mouth of a Shark

2. Extractive Entanglements Across Alien Territories

3. Policing Empire after Empire

4. Homeland Warfare and Differential Racism

5. Extinction Politics

6. The End of Britain

Notes

Indicative Bibliography

Index