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Femke De Nil
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Historian of Belgian imperialism | PhD at Ghent University 🧚‍♀️ | Working on colonial economies, environment and technology.
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Next Tuesday will be the second lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder (EHESS, Paris) will be talking about Agricultural Modernisation in Brittany (France): Gender, work, and technology perspectives in pig farming specialisation (1945-1980s).
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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We are very happy to announce our new online lecture series 'Livestock Histories: Regional and Global Perspectives'. The first lecture will be next week, where Steven Van Wolputte will be talking about cattle, microbes and veterinarians as entangled life forms in the history of Northern Namibia.
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Fascinating article by Nuala Zahedieh about the centrality of canoes in early colonial exploitation 🗃️https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf021/8231030
Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*
Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod
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August 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Hey look its now properly out and available

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Article On the Stability of Racial Capitalism Abstract What is the connection between capitalism and racial hierarchy? In line with the tradition known as ‘the theory of racial capitalism’ we show that the latter can functionally support the former. As a social construction, race has just those features which allow it to facilitate the sort of stable, inequitable distributions of resources that tend to emerge in capitalist systems. We support this claim using techniques from evolutionary game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, and end by discussing the normative political consequences of this relationship. How to Cite: Kofi Bright, L., Gabriel, N., O'Connor, C. & Táíwò, O. O., (2025) “On the Stability of Racial Capitalism”, Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 12: 42. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.7965
August 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM