Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism

A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17720-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local labor. Under colonial rule, the ideology that later became known as neoliberalism was free to subject labor to a capitalism tainted by racialized policies. This political economy has now become dominant in the Western world, too, and has reversed the trend towards equality. In Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, Jan Breman shows how racial favoritism is no longer contained to ‘faraway, indigenous peoples’, but has become a source of polarization within Western societies as well.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breman, Jan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue, I Imperialism, Its Ideology and Practice of Racial Inequality, 1. Colonialism and racism, 2. Alexis de Tocqueville on class and race, II The Coolie Scandal at Sumatra's East Coast, 3. Dutch colonialism and its racial imprint, 4. Coolie labour and colonial capitalism, 5. A crafty lawyer of shady deals, III Civilisation and Racism, 6. A state of terror. Leopold II's Congo, 7. Colonial development, 8. Whistleblowers of Belgian colonialism, IV The Denial of National Freedom, 9. The color line as the crux of colonial rule, 10. Christianization and capitalism. The religious fervour of ethical politics, 11. Indonesia's decolonization impaired, 12. The last colonial war and its impact on Indonesia's independence, Development Aid as the Postcolonial Globalization of Capitalism, 13. Spreading Dutch welfarism in the Global South, 14. Development aid abandoned, mission achieved, 15. W.F. Wertheim, a sociological chronicler of revolutionary change, Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Breman is professor emeritus of comparative sociology at the University of Amsterdam and an honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.