Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Online
About the Event
For all that Cedric Robinson first deployed the concept of “racial capitalism” to describe the racialist hierarchies that early modern Europe entrenched and exported to the rest of the world, much of the scholarly literature on racial capitalism has centred North American histories of colonization, Indigenous dispossession, racial slavery, and indentured labor. More recently, scholars have begun to explore how theories of colonial and racial capitalism might be transplanted to and critically revised for other postcolonial conjunctures.
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research and to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory. Confirmed speakers include Sita Balani (QMUL), Piro Rexhepi (LSE) and Kristina Millona (Independent Researcher), Barbora Černušáková (Manchester), Amani Hassani (Brunel), and Sabrina Axster (Johns Hopkins). The issue editors, Sarah Bufkin (Birmingham) and Ida Danewid (Sussex), will chair the event.
Join us on Thursday, 26 March at 5.00pm GMT for an online discussion and South Atlantic Quarterly launch event that joins this generative conversation by asking how we might theorize racial capitalism for the heart of empire.
Registration
This event is free to attend but registration is required.