{"title":"Criminal cities","authors":"Molly Slavin","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-3","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015’s Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature\u0000 , the Warwick Research Collective (WReC) proposes “reactivat[ing] the theory of combined and uneven development,” by which they mean an economic system in which capitalist formations exist alongside different, usually older, methods of economically organizing society. WReC insists that combined and uneven development is a necessary way of looking at literary and cultural production, for “capitalist development does not smooth away but rather produces unevenness, systematically and as a matter of course.” This chapter will look at the post-Good Friday Agreement literature of Belfast and the post-apartheid literature of Johannesburg to argue that these watershed moments in each city’s history have not achieved full-scale justice or reparations, but have reorganized the city along uneven capitalist development lines. The fault lines of these twenty-first-century cities are often revealed through the conjoined study of crime, imperial legacies, and economics in literature. By examining Stuart Neville’s The Twelve and Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City this chapter will argue that each city and its literature can find resonance in the theory of “combined and uneven development.”","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114499179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary plantation narratives and the postcolonial memory of capitalism 1","authors":"Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133181072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unearthing land and labor disputes in Tunisia","authors":"Matthew J. Gordner","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132644808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hong Kong and the Sinocentric afterlife of an Anglophone postcolonial discourse","authors":"Michael O'Sullivan","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122530762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derailing the rail","authors":"Meghan Gorman-DaRif","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123943236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waste lands and preserves","authors":"D. Spillman","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129691143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coloniality, knowledge production, and racialized socio-economic inequality in South Africa","authors":"Savo Heleta","doi":"10.4324/9780367853570-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853570-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224632,"journal":{"name":"The Economics of Empire","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129716955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}