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11 Dreams of extractive development
Reviving the Benguela Railway in central Angola
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Jon Schubert
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Figures x
- Contributors xiii
- Acknowledgements xix
- Introduction 1
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Introduction
- Blowouts 35
- 1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives 39
- 2 ‘Boom!’ 49
- 3 Spillcam 58
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Spillcam
- Circulations 69
- 4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa 73
- 5 Both sides of the coin 89
- 6 Milo 102
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Milo
- Borders 116
- 7 ‘The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary’ 120
- 8 Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt 132
- 9 Libre 142
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Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension
- Emergence 154
- 10 ‘Afro-pessimism’ and emerging markets finance 160
- 11 Dreams of extractive development 172
- 12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain 182
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Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain
- Gestures 193
- 13 Italy, Libya and the EU 197
- 14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia 208
- 15 Connected by a blue sweater 221
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Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development
- Play 233
- 16 Eternal conflict 237
- 17 I am your dividend 248
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I am your dividend
- Control 259
- 18 ‘The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless’ 263
- 19 Data Centre Séance 278
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Data Centre Séance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism
- Imaginaries 290
- 20 Mesoamérica Resiste 294
- 21 Extractive scars and the lightness of finance 305
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Extractive scars and the lightness of finance
- 22 Imagined maps of racial capitalism 314
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Imagined maps of racial capitalism
- Index 322
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Figures x
- Contributors xiii
- Acknowledgements xix
- Introduction 1
-
Introduction
- Blowouts 35
- 1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives 39
- 2 ‘Boom!’ 49
- 3 Spillcam 58
-
Spillcam
- Circulations 69
- 4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa 73
- 5 Both sides of the coin 89
- 6 Milo 102
-
Milo
- Borders 116
- 7 ‘The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary’ 120
- 8 Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt 132
- 9 Libre 142
-
Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension
- Emergence 154
- 10 ‘Afro-pessimism’ and emerging markets finance 160
- 11 Dreams of extractive development 172
- 12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain 182
-
Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain
- Gestures 193
- 13 Italy, Libya and the EU 197
- 14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia 208
- 15 Connected by a blue sweater 221
-
Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development
- Play 233
- 16 Eternal conflict 237
- 17 I am your dividend 248
-
I am your dividend
- Control 259
- 18 ‘The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless’ 263
- 19 Data Centre Séance 278
-
Data Centre Séance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism
- Imaginaries 290
- 20 Mesoamérica Resiste 294
- 21 Extractive scars and the lightness of finance 305
-
Extractive scars and the lightness of finance
- 22 Imagined maps of racial capitalism 314
-
Imagined maps of racial capitalism
- Index 322