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The Structural Order of Neoliberal Racial Capital (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). The Structural Order of Neoliberal Racial Capital. In S. Goddard, G. Lawson, & O. J. Sending (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on International Political Sociology (456-469). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854708.013.22

This chapter explores the structural order of neoliberal racial capital as both replacement for and continuation of the colonial order of value extraction from Global South to North. Neoliberalism is presented as a counter-revolution against decoloni... Read More about The Structural Order of Neoliberal Racial Capital.

Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua. In M. Dhanda (Ed.), Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context (1-29). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945246.003.0094

European colonialism in the Pacific brought racial taxonomies and hierarchies to the shores of West Papua and the wider Melanesian region. Since this formal colonial era, the peoples of West Papua have been subject to shifting discourses and structur... Read More about Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua.

Race/Economy (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Race/Economy. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. J. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question (2024)
Journal Article
Tilley, L. (online). Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2024.2400352

The question of materialism – what it is, how it is studied and practised, and who takes it seriously enough – has long animated debates among Marxists and scholars of race and the colonial question. Today, our contemporary socioecological crises cha... Read More about Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question.

Reproducing Socio-ecological Life from Below: Towards a Planetary Political Economy of the Global Majority (2024)
Journal Article
Tansel, C. B., & Tilley, L. (2024). Reproducing Socio-ecological Life from Below: Towards a Planetary Political Economy of the Global Majority. Review of International Studies, 50(3), 514-533. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000251

Confronting the coming five decades from our present conjuncture demands – to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci’s famous mantra – both critical pessimism and a wilful politics of hope. In this article, we engage with the politics of climate breakdown and th... Read More about Reproducing Socio-ecological Life from Below: Towards a Planetary Political Economy of the Global Majority.

Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies (2022)
Journal Article
Tilley, L., Ranawana, A., Baldwin, A., & Tully, T. (2023). Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies. Politics, 43(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221127166

Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, im... Read More about Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies.

Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: toward equal exchange and the end of population. (2022)
Journal Article
Tilley, L., & Ajl, M. (2023). Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: toward equal exchange and the end of population. Politics, 43(2), 201-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221075323

In this article, we draw attention to similarities and synergies between eco-fascist and liberal forms of populationism which encourage reproductive injustices against Indigenous women and women of colour globally, increasingly in the name of climate... Read More about Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: toward equal exchange and the end of population..

Raced Markets (2021)
Book
Tilley, L., & Shilliam, R. (Eds.). (2021). Raced Markets. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165989

Despite rich archives of work on race and the global economy, most notably by scholars of colour and Global South intellectuals, the discipline of Political Economy has largely avoided an honest confrontation with how race works within the domains it... Read More about Raced Markets.