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On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West
London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others
were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the
epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and
corporations. On its second anniversary activists, artists and
academics come together to respond, remember and recover the
disaster. The Grenfell Tower fire illustrates Britain's symbolic
order; the continued logic of colonialism, the disposability of
working class lives, the marketisation of social provision and
global austerity politics, and the negligence and malfeasance of
multinational contractors. Exploring these topics and more, the
contributors construct critical analysis from legal, cultural,
media, community and government responses to the fire, asking
whether, without remedy for multifaceted power and violence, we
will ever really be 'after' Grenfell? With poetry by Ben Okri and
Tony Walsh, and photographs by Parveen Ali, Sam Boal and Yolanthe
Fawehinmi. With contributions from Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick,
Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley and The Radical
Housing Network.
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire,
its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration
is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial
through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and
80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its
colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had
plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial
history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons
know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as
a gift once given to the world. Meanwhile immigration laws are
justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out.
In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and
violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from
accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial
conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse
dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to
colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of
race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back
what is theirs. -- .
'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar We are in a moment
of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and
entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial
legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of authoritarian
regimes, it is the lens of racism, and the politics of race, that
offers the sharpest focus. In Empire's Endgame, eight leading
scholars make a powerful intervention in debates around racial
capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the 'hostile
environment' policy and Brexit referendum have thrown the
centrality of race into sharp relief, discussions of racism have
too often focused on individual behaviours. Foregrounding instead
the wider political and economic context, the authors trace the
ways in which the legacies of empire have been reshaped by global
capitalism, the digital environment and the instability of the
nation-state. Engaging with movements such as Black Lives Matter
and Rhodes Must Fall, Empire's Endgame offers both an original
perspective on race, media, the state and criminalisation, and a
political vision that includes rather than expels in the face of
crisis.
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire,
its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration
is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial
through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and
80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its
colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had
plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial
history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons
know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as
a gift once given to the world. Meanwhile immigration laws are
justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out.
In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and
violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from
accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial
conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse
dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to
colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of
race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back
what is theirs. -- .
'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar We are in a moment
of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and
entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial
legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of authoritarian
regimes, it is the lens of racism, and the politics of race, that
offers the sharpest focus. In Empire's Endgame, eight leading
scholars make a powerful intervention in debates around racial
capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the 'hostile
environment' policy and Brexit referendum have thrown the
centrality of race into sharp relief, discussions of racism have
too often focused on individual behaviours. Foregrounding instead
the wider political and economic context, the authors trace the
ways in which the legacies of empire have been reshaped by global
capitalism, the digital environment and the instability of the
nation-state. Engaging with movements such as Black Lives Matter
and Rhodes Must Fall, Empire's Endgame offers both an original
perspective on race, media, the state and criminalisation, and a
political vision that includes rather than expels in the face of
crisis.
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West
London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others
were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the
epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and
corporations. On its second anniversary activists, artists and
academics come together to respond, remember and recover the
disaster. The Grenfell Tower fire illustrates Britain's symbolic
order; the continued logic of colonialism, the disposability of
working class lives, the marketisation of social provision and
global austerity politics, and the negligence and malfeasance of
multinational contractors. Exploring these topics and more, the
contributors construct critical analysis from legal, cultural,
media, community and government responses to the fire, asking
whether, without remedy for multifaceted power and violence, we
will ever really be 'after' Grenfell? With poetry by Ben Okri and
Tony Walsh, and photographs by Parveen Ali, Sam Boal and Yolanthe
Fawehinmi. With contributions from Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick,
Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley and The Radical
Housing Network.
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