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Between Equal Rights: Primitive Accumulation and Capital’s Violence (2018)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2018). Between Equal Rights: Primitive Accumulation and Capital’s Violence. Political Theory, 46(6), 885-914. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591717748420

This essay attempts to elaborate a political theory of capital’s violence. Recent analyses have adopted Karl Marx’s notion of the “primitive accumulation of capital” for investigating the forcible methods by which the conditions of capital accumulati... Read More about Between Equal Rights: Primitive Accumulation and Capital’s Violence.

Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (2018)
Book
Ince, O. U. (2018). Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637293.001.0001

This book analyzes the relationship between liberalism and empire from the perspective of political economy. It investigates the formative impact of “colonial capitalism” on the historical development of British liberal thought between the late seven... Read More about Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism.

Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume, Colonial Slavery, and Commercial Incivility (2018)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2018). Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume, Colonial Slavery, and Commercial Incivility. History of Political Thought, 39(1), 107-137. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2971323

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought has recently been reclaimed as a robust, albeit short-lived, cosmopolitan critique of European imperialism. This essay complicates this interpretation through a study of David Hume’s reflections on commerce, e... Read More about Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume, Colonial Slavery, and Commercial Incivility.