Militarized Global Apartheid

In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized global order. Whether using the language of security, military intervention, surveillance technologies, or detention centers and other forms of incarceration, these projects reinforce and consolidate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color. By drawing out how this new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of liberatory politics.

Author: Catherine Besteman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/13/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781478011507
ISBN10: 1478011505
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations

About the Author
Catherine Besteman is Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and author of Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine, also published by Duke University Press.