Heathrow and the Making of Neoliberal Britain

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
J. Vernon
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How might we understand neoliberalism and its history differently if we trace its emergence and operation in a particular place? As the first airport in the world to be privatized in 1986 Heathrow is a paradigmatic neoliberal space. And yet for decades before it was sold the airport’s services — catering, cleaning, retail and security — had been steadily deregulated and outsourced in ways that force us to reconsider neoliberalism as discrete from, or emerging from a rupture with, welfare capitalism. The precarious and cheap outsourced forms of labour at Heathrow were performed by Commonwealth citizens of colour, often women, who had paradoxically arrived in Britain through an increasingly hostile immigration regime at the airport. The racialized forms of neoliberal capitalism at the airport depended upon and reproduced a post-imperial social formation that was no less marked by postcolonial crises and a new biopolitics of immigration control designed to restrict their diasporas in the metropole. Seen from Heathrow, neoliberalism is less about the global flow of ideas and capital than the local social formations and labour regimes engendered by changing forms of accumulation.
希思罗机场与新自由主义英国的形成
如果我们追溯新自由主义在一个特定地方的出现和运作,我们会如何以不同的方式理解它及其历史?作为1986年世界上第一个私有化的机场,希思罗机场是一个典型的新自由主义空间。然而,在出售之前的几十年里,机场的服务——餐饮、清洁、零售和安全——一直在稳步放松管制和外包,这迫使我们重新考虑新自由主义是与福利资本主义分离的,还是从与福利资本主义决裂中出现的。希思罗机场不稳定、廉价的外包劳动力是由英联邦有色人种公民(通常是女性)从事的,她们矛盾地是通过机场日益敌对的移民制度来到英国的。机场的新自由主义资本主义的种族化形式依赖并再现了一种后帝国主义的社会形态,这种社会形态同样以后殖民危机和新的移民控制生物政治为特征,旨在限制他们在大都市的散居。从希思罗机场看,新自由主义与其说是关于思想和资本的全球流动,不如说是关于由不断变化的积累形式所产生的地方社会形态和劳动制度。
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Past & Present
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal offers: •A wide variety of scholarly and original articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world. •Four issues a year, each containing five or six major articles plus occasional debates and review essays. •Challenging work by young historians as well as seminal articles by internationally regarded scholars. •A range of articles that appeal to specialists and non-specialists, and communicate the results of the most recent historical research in a readable and lively form. •A forum for debate, encouraging productive controversy.
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