Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Mouth of a Shark
2. Extractive Entanglements Across Alien Territories
3. Policing Empire after Empire
4. Homeland Warfare and Differential Racism
5. Extinction Politics
6. The End of Britain
Notes
Indicative Bibliography
Index
James Trafford is Reader in Philosophy and Design in the school of Communication Design at the University for the Creative Arts. He is the author of Meaning in Dialogue (Springer, 2017), and co-editor of Alien Vectors (Routledge, 2019), and Speculative Aesthetics (MIT Press, 2016).
'Forceful ... Re-centres coloniality in Britain's past and present
in a way that articulates what so many of us experience as the
embodied reality of being in Britain, but so rarely get space to
voice: that colonialism and its continued methods of control'
*Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, poet and author of 'Postcolonial Banter'
(Verve Poetry Press, 2019)*
'An excellent and intelligently argued book. It neatly charts the
transformation of colonial techniques 'at home' and how Britain was
reconfigured in postcolonial terms'
*Gurminder K Bhambra, author of 'Rethinking Modernity:
Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007)*
'An indispensable read for those who want to both understand and
put aside the at once Eurocentric and nationalist lens of Brexit
debates'
*Angela Mitropoulos, author of 'Contract & Contagion: From
Biopolitics to Oikonomia' (Minor Compositions, 2012) and
'Pandemonium Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic
Swerve' (Pluto, 2020)*
'A must-read for understanding Britain today. Britain is colonial,
and the beauty of Trafford's riveting book is to show just how much
this simple fact explains of recent British history'
*Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism, Inventing the
Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work' (Polity Press,
2016)*
'Evocative ... unflinchingly unveils the workings of race as a
'technology that forms part of the machinery of colonialism'.
Essential reading for an understanding of how and why white
Britishness negates those who are 'in, but not of' it'
*Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis
at Western Sydney University and author of 'Why Race Still Matters'
(Polity, 2020)*
'A fascinating exposé of Britain as an ongoing colonial project.
Deftly provides us with the counternarratives we need to think
imaginatively about how to dismantle and ultimately end British
colonialism'
*Dr Nadine El-Enany, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Race and
Law and author of '(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire' (MUP,
2019)*
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