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SUMMARY:CoDE Seminar: Brexit and the Boomerang of Empire
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DESCRIPTION:In the midst of Britain’s ongoing political crisis\, this pap
 er reframes the Brexit question by beginning at edges of Britain’s relat
 ionship to its colonial outposts over the twentieth century. Whilst figu
 res imperial romantics like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg offer a vi
 sion of an independent ‘Global Britain’ returning to its past glories\, 
 if we analyse the coming spectre of ‘Global Britain’ - reducing taxation
  laws\, relaxing environmental and worker protections\, relying on forei
 gn corporate investment\, erasing spending on public welfare\, etc – we 
 start to see similarities to the shock doctrine economic liberalisation 
 that Britain’s former colonies in Asia\, Africa and the Caribbean experi
 enced during the post-colonial moment.\n\nIn Britain\, an ongoing myopia
  regarding what Aimé Césaire famously called the ‘boomerang’ of empire i
 s indebted to abiding allegiance a historical determinism that fixes Bri
 tain at the forefront of development. Having birthed industrial capitali
 sm and parliamentary sovereignty\, Britain still sees the ‘developing’ n
 ations of its former colonial world following in its wake\, along a line
 ar path. As a result\, political thought in Britain has largely ignored 
 political and economic changes that visited the rest of the world\, both
  during the British empire and in its aftermath\; however this myopia ha
 s left us unprepared for the ‘boomerang’ of the changes which are now st
 arting life within Britain itself. At the heart of these global economic
  changes is a conflict between imperium and dominium: Imperium is best u
 nderstood as the world of states and sovereignty\, dominium being the wo
 rld of capital and property. Following the decolonial moments\, where th
 e outposts of the British empire fought to enter into the world of state
 s and sovereignty\, there was a backlash against imperium by those who w
 ished to protect what they owned. Britain’s allegiance with the world of
  dominium\, with the corporations that did so much to build the empire i
 tself created the conditions for the problems and challenges Britain fac
 es today. Tracing the histories of both the colonies and the motherland 
 since decolonisation\, this paper takes an original perspective on the B
 rexit crisis by showing its relationship to the postcolonial legal\, eco
 nomic and political changes of the twentieth century.
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