Archives: James Trafford
James Trafford (@james_trafford)
James Trafford is author of The Empire at Home: Internal Colonisation and the End of Britain (Pluto Press, 2020) and is currently working on the intersections of policing and racial capitalism.
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Extinction Politics
The idea of a global commons and of "natural limits" emerged in the 1970s, and forms a Neo-Malthusian structure of thinking that underpins certain environmentalist movements and practices.
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Riot Redactions, Colonial Reverberations
Uprisings reveal policing including that of the British state as not only domination, exclusion and hierarchical ordering but grounded in an originary war and the unpoliceability of colonial subjects.
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Reclaiming Common Sense
Arguably, we are at a critical sociohistorical juncture.
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