Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa, and Asia

Dip Kapoor

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Routledge
20 March 2025

Development studies; Colonialism & imperialism; Anthropology; Politics & government; Development economics

Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies

This book is a critical excavation of capitalist development that is being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era, with a related focus on the anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance by Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and migrant workers in Africa, Asia/Middle East, and the Americas/Caribbean.

Informed by the work of Dr. Abdul Aziz Choudry, the contributors demonstrate how Indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker learning in political action and knowledge production are essential for growing and sustaining social movements and organised struggles. The collection demonstrates how these resistances challenge racialized processes of territorial occupation, accumulation by dispossession, exploitation, and cultural and educational imperialism. Focusing on the regions of the Americas/Caribbean, Africa, Asia/Middle East, and across both settler and exploitation colonies, the chapters amplify Indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker activism and draw out critical perspectives pertaining to colonial capital.

The Indigenous, anticolonial, and anticapitalist politics highlighted in this book will be essential reading for activists engaged with international relations and social change. It will also inform the work of students and critical scholars of social movement and resistance studies, critical development studies, Indigenous studies, peasant and critical agrarian studies, migrant/labour studies, sociology, political science, and regional/area studies.

Edited by: Dip Kapoor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032519340
ISBN 10: 1032519347
Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 20 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Dip Kapoor is with the Center for Research & Development Solidarity (CRDS), an Adivasi-Dalit Indigenous and landless peasant organization in India and is a Professor (University of Alberta) in International Development Education working with Indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker social movements in the exploitation colonies. His co-edited collections with Dr. Aziz Choudry include, Learning from the Ground-Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (2010) and NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects (2009). Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession: Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia (2020) (with Steven Jordan) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific and Africa (2017) are other recent collections.

Reviews for Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa, and Asia

""This eclectic collection of case studies and reflections revisits core lessons from Aziz Choudry’s life and work while adding meaning from contributor’s specific geographic/movement locations and building resistance to colonising capitalism. This book will raise your spirits, stimulate your thinking, and send you back into the struggle with renewed energy."" Bob Boughton, University of New England, Australia. ""An extraordinary collection of essays in memory of Dr. Aziz Choudry and a powerful testament to his seminal work on social movements as instructive sites of knowledge production. A gem of an archive of the lessons we need to learn from contemporary struggles in Africa, Asia and the Americas."" Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. ""A remarkable tribute to Aziz Choudry, this is a collection of brilliant and insightful essays by activist-intellectuals on key communities that Aziz dedicated his life to - migrants, peasants and indigenous peoples."" Biju Mathews, Rider University, USA. ""This book is a heart-warming and fitting tribute to our late friend and comrade Aziz Choudry. Reflecting the geographical breadth and depth of Aziz’s engagements with global struggles, the chapters move between critical and theoretical analysis and the grassroots insights of people on the ground. A must read."" Mario Novelli, University of Sussex, UK.