Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp.
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Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (online). Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251344229
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Review of: Reconsidering Reparations, by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Oxford University Press, New York, 2021 (2024)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2024). Review of: Reconsidering Reparations, by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Oxford University Press, New York, 2021. Contemporary Political Theory, 23, 352-355. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-023-00652-2
From 'Chinese Colonist' to 'Yellow Peril': Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire (2023)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2024). From 'Chinese Colonist' to 'Yellow Peril': Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire. American Political Science Review, 118(4), 1748-1762. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001260The literature on “racial capitalism” exhibits a tension between the term’s evocative power and its conceptual imprecision. This article navigates this tension by developing the mid-level concept of “capitalist racialization,” which specifies the rol... Read More about From 'Chinese Colonist' to 'Yellow Peril': Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire.
Review of: The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History. By Eric Helleiner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 401p. $49.95 cloth. (2022)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2022). Review of: The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History. By Eric Helleiner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 401p. $49.95 cloth. Perspectives on Politics, 20(3), 1155-1156. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592722001608
Saving Capitalism from Empire: Uses of Colonial History in New Institutional Economics (2022)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2024). Saving Capitalism from Empire: Uses of Colonial History in New Institutional Economics. International Relations, 38(4), 589-614. https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178221104699This article contributes to theorising colonialism and capitalism within the same analytic frame through a critical engagement with the uses of colonial history in new institutional economics (NIE). The ‘colonial turn’ in NIE holds significant diagno... Read More about Saving Capitalism from Empire: Uses of Colonial History in New Institutional Economics.
Locating Racial Capitalism: Insights from a Transimperial Frame (2021)
Digital Artefact
Ince, O. U. (2021). Locating Racial Capitalism: Insights from a Transimperial Frame. [Online]
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India (2021)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2022). Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India. American Political Science Review, 116(1), 144-160. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000939Recent literature on racial capitalism has overwhelmingly focused on the Atlantic settler-slave formation, sidelining the history of European imperialism in Asia. This article addresses this blind spot by recovering the aborted project of British set... Read More about Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India.
Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Limits of Liberal Anti-Imperialism (2021)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (2021). Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Limits of Liberal Anti-Imperialism. The Journal of Politics, 83(3), 1080-1096. https://doi.org/10.1086/711321Recent scholarship has claimed Adam Smith’s frontal attack on the mercantile system as a precocious expression of liberal anti-imperialism. This article argues that settler colonialism in North America represented an important exception and limit to... Read More about Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Limits of Liberal Anti-Imperialism.
Empire and its afterlives (2020)
Journal Article
Marwah, I. S., Pitts, J., Vasko, T. B., Ince, O. U., & Nichols, R. (2020). Empire and its afterlives. Contemporary Political Theory, 19(2), 274-305. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-020-00391-8
Development (2019)
Book Chapter
Ince, O. U. (2019). Development. In J. D'Aspremont, & S. Singh (Eds.), Concepts for International Law: contributions to disciplinary thought (179-200). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684.00018This chapter examines the institutional, discursive and political economic dimensions of the postwar regime of development. In addition to discussing the twentieth-century paradigms of development, such as modernization, dependency, basic needs and h... Read More about Development.