Labour geography III: Precarity, racial capitalisms and infrastructure

Abstract

This final report highlights the increasing attention to precarity, including academic precarity, within geography. After briefly discussing the implications for approaches to agency, I argue for attention to debates about racialized and racial capitalism from labour geographers. I suggest that theorizations of racial capitalism emerge from particular standpoints, and that geographers are well placed to explore racial capitalisms in a plural sense if we are willing to grapple with the standpoints from which we theorize in labour geography itself. I draw on the ‘infrastructural turn’ to illustrate how labour geographers can start to think with relational approaches to racial capitalism.

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Kendra Strauss (2019). Labour geography III: Precarity, racial capitalisms and infrastructure. Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519895308

@article{kendra2019labour,
  title  = {Labour geography III: Precarity, racial capitalisms and infrastructure},
  author = {Strauss, Kendra},
  year   = {2019},
  journal = {Progress in Human Geography},
  doi    = {10.1177/0309132519895308}
}

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