Simon, Michael 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0471-4305
(2022)
The constitution of a community: Spatiotemporality, ‘race’, and state resistance in Liverpool.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
If capitalism and the rise of the bourgeoisie emerged in Europe as Marx amongst others has suggested. Then this thesis will show how the symbiotic relationship between ‘race’, class, and capital – articulated as racial capitalism - can be exemplified within Liverpool’s Black community spaces. Liverpool has the oldest settled Black community in Europe thus offering this thesis the opportunity to analyze the first ‘Black space’ in Europe. Similarly, if England is essential to the development of industrial capital that accelerated the urbanization of the UK’s industrial spaces – Liverpool again offers a prima facie example par excellence in understanding how racial capitalism fuelled that development. Racial capitalism as a lens can also be applied to the development of mercantile capital, in terms of Liverpool’s legacy as the site of the great leap in relation to the transatlantic trade – a trade fuelled by a legacy of Slavery. The power this legacy brought to bear, shaped the UK's political approach in the development of Imperialism, and colonization and therefore influences the UK’s contemporary attitudes towards ‘race’. This study will show how the continuity of the psyche of colonial attitudes shapes the institutions and attitudes within Liverpool and beyond. Indeed, the decline of Liverpool, ensured the rise of a new breed of political actions at the forefront of the scramble for Africa, Asia, and the cadastral production of the ‘pink map of empire’, as the ‘reformed’ slaver families relocated their power bases to the capital. However, their legacy within Liverpool remains today and is revealed in all its insidiousness across this study. The concept of value – immaterial but objective - and its concatenation to contemporary articulations of Blackness will be exemplified through this study of spatiotemporality in Liverpool. Although the scope of achieving a complete oversight into such a complex and vast history tests the limits of what is possible in one thesis. This study’s greatest strength is that it makes an important contribution towards renewing a fresh engagement with the relationship between ‘race’, space, and capital, and as this study will show – articulated as the racial fix -, the centrality of this trialectic to the development of urbanization of capital has been totally underestimated to date, across debates of racial capitalism and beyond. This thesis presents a study on racial capitalism in the 21st century via the process of racialized space within urban development.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2023 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 10:26 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03166239 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166239 |
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