This book draws together scholarship on the material function of race at various scales in the global political economy.

Lisa Tilley is currently a lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work focuses on political economy/ecology, race, and historical/present-day colonialism, extraction and expropriation, especially in Southeast Asia. She also co-convenes the CPD-BISA working group and is Associate Editor of Global Social Theory.

Robbie Shilliam is Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. He is most recently author of Race and the Undeserving Poor (2018) and Decolonizing Politics (2021). He is Editor-in-Chief of International Politics Reviews.

Raced Markets: Prefatory Note

David Roediger

Introduction: Raced Markets

Lisa Tilley and Robbie Shilliam

1. Crusoe, Friday and the Raced Market Frame of Orthodox Economics Textbooks

Matthew Watson

2. 'We All Have a Responsibility to Each Other': Valuing Racialised Bodies in the Neoliberal Bioeconomy

Sibille Merz and Ros Williams

3. Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Liberal Welfare State

Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood

4. Racism and Far Right Imaginaries Within Neo-liberal Political Economy

Richard Saull

5. Detroit's Municipal Bankruptcy: Racialised Geographies of Austerity

Sawyer Phinney

6. Refugees as Surplus Population: Race, Migration and Capitalist Value Regimes

Prem Kumar Rajaram