Neoliberal force is deployed against local socialities coded as irrational or premodern

Evidence

Where the sort of strained and constrained mixture is rebuffed in favor of indigenous or local sociality – coded as different, as irrational or antique, religious or premodern – there the force of neoliberal imposition and insertion may be brought to bear. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1887

Categorization

  • XREF: Speaks directly to the work’s interest in how dominant codes discipline recalcitrant populations; ties racialized modernity to the contact/institution gap framing. — connects to: Neoliberalism resorts to violent enforcement when local socialities reject its order — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1887; Neoliberal modernisation aimed to destroy non-market sources of social reproduction — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 354; Neoliberal economic policy functions as covert structural violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 38 (+1 more)

Broader Connections