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SUMMARY:'Denaturalisation and Modernity: Drugs and Racial Capitalism' Ann
 e Pollock [HYBRID]
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DESCRIPTION:In this CoDE lunchtime seminar\, Professor Anne Pollock (King
 's College London) shares her research.\n\nSUMMARY\nFrom the earliest da
 ys of European colonialism in the Americas and transatlantic slavery\, p
 sychoactive drugs\, racial inequality\, and the global political economi
 c order have had intertwined histories. This paper draws on collaborativ
 e research with historical sociologist Luisa Farah Schwartzman. Particul
 arly attentive to sugarcane—used to produce cachaça and rum—as well as c
 oca\, cocaine\, tobacco and opium\, we argue that the intensive producti
 on of and transnational trade in increasingly potent psychoactive substa
 nces fuelled the historical rise of racial capitalism and has remained v
 ital to the ongoing re/production of the unjust global order. The ascend
 ance of drugs as commodities has been co-constitutional with the commodi
 fication of both the natural world and the labouring bodies that is at t
 he heart of racial capitalism. At the same time\, the circulation of com
 modified and globalized drugs into bodies helped produce and institution
 alize struggles over “modern\,” differentiated subject-making that were 
 key to both capitalism and to constitution of today’s global political o
 rder. Building on Sylvia Wynter's work\, we argue that race\, drugs and 
 Euro-colonial modernity are entangled through a process we call denatura
 lization. Denaturalization is the process by which Euro-colonial “modern
 ” ideologies aimed at the control of the natural environment\, at the au
 tonomy of certain individuals from their “natures\,” and at classifying 
 some humans as more “natural” than others\, become institutionalized\, a
 nd come to shape the political and economic management of humans and the
 ir environments across the scales of individual consciousness and racial
  capitalism.\n\nThis seminar will not be recorded.\n\nHOW TO JOIN US\nYo
 u can attend this seminar in person at the University of Manchester or o
 nline via Teams Webinar. Please register for the joining link and to be 
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 estions please contact us. \n\n\n\n\n\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Alistair Ulph Boardroom (2nd Floor)\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Ma
 nchester
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