Online workshop on 30 January 2025 (6pm CET) about Mònica Clua-Losada’s recent article.
Speaker
Mònica Clua-Losada is a Beatriz Galindo Senior Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her research focuses on the contestation, subversion and resistance of labour and other social movements to capitalist relations of domination. She uses a Critical Political Economy approach to study resistance and prefigurative practices in social and labour movements in (authoritarian) neoliberal contexts, in order to create emancipatory knowledge that can subvert and disrupt neoliberal power relations.
Discussant
Rosa Maryon, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the West of England
Ian Bruff, Senior Lecturer in European Politics, University of Manchester
Read the article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26349825241283836
Abstract
SpaceX’s launch site on the US–Mexico border, in the Rio Grande Valley, is an ideal example of the interconnected relationship between racial capitalism and authoritarian neoliberalism, the neoliberal expropriation of spaces and communities, and the tapestries of resistance weaved against these processes. The privatisation of space exploration is an illustration of the development of authoritarian modes of governance that are designed to facilitate such expropriation of spaces and communities. In the case considered in this article, these processes are directly related to the development of racial capitalism on the US–Mexico border. This article places the focus on how racial authoritarian neoliberalism is a response to capitalism’s inability to successfully impose a hegemonic project.
Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06) 