All Outputs (7)

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

Global Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies (2018)
Book Chapter
Parasram, A., & Tilley, L. (2018). Global Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies. In O. U. Rutazibwa, & R. Shilliam (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (302-317). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315671192-25

This chapter argues for a consideration of global environmental harm from the position of the world's internal frontiers in both settler colonial and former franchise colonial countries. Indigenous survivors of colonial genocide have endured and resi... Read More about Global Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies.

“Well, City Boy Rangoon, it’s time to stitch up the evening”: Material, meaning, and Man in the (post)colonial city (2017)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2017). “Well, City Boy Rangoon, it’s time to stitch up the evening”: Material, meaning, and Man in the (post)colonial city. In M. Jackson (Ed.), Coloniality, Ontology, and the Question of the Posthuman. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686721-8

How are ‘Man’ and its matters cultivated in urban life? And how are resistant claims by the Other to be already-human materialised in the city? Through a reading of the human/material of Rangoon, this chapter calls for posthuman engagement with the f... Read More about “Well, City Boy Rangoon, it’s time to stitch up the evening”: Material, meaning, and Man in the (post)colonial city.

Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject (2017)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2017). Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject. In A. Lacey (Ed.), Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance (43-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95182-6_3

In a scenario resembling that within many urban settings across the globe, intensive commercial investment supported by a state evictions regime is rapidly displacing the urban poor from their ‘kampung’ neighbourhoods in Jakarta. This chapter turns a... Read More about Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject.

Decolonizing the Study of Capitalist Diversity: Epistemic Disruption and the Varied Geographies of Coloniality (2015)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2015). Decolonizing the Study of Capitalist Diversity: Epistemic Disruption and the Varied Geographies of Coloniality. In M. Ebenau, I. Bruff, & C. May (Eds.), New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research (207-223). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444615_13

The nation-as-method approach of Comparative Capitalisms (CC) scholarship has generally taken differential economic growth outcomes between national settings as a core explanandum. The widening of this scholarship beyond its original concern for the... Read More about Decolonizing the Study of Capitalist Diversity: Epistemic Disruption and the Varied Geographies of Coloniality.