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Richardson, Ben (2023) Middle England’s empire : social reproduction in the colonial global economy. British Journal of Politics and International Relations . doi:10.1177/13691481231186117 ISSN 1369-1481. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481231186117
Abstract
This article brings feminist critiques of capitalism into conversation with race-conscious International Political Economy to highlight the place of social reproduction in the colonial global economy. It does so by taking a provincial perspective, using Royal Leamington Spa as a case study to reveal how the provision of care for the elderly and the ill sustained colonial elites across the life course, while religious and educational practices helped transmit cultural values across generations and reproduce imperialism as an institutionalised social order. Whereas the finance houses of London, the factories of Manchester, and the ports of Liverpool and Bristol constitute nodal points for imperial circuits of capital, the spa town condenses the everyday practices through which bourgeois empire was lived and made liveable. These findings point to a functional differentiation of economic space within the metropole and offer a critical reinterpretation of Middle England as a whitened site of middle-class respectability.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Politics and International Relations | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1369-1481 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/13691481231186117 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
Re-use Statement: | Posted ahead of print. Richardson, Ben (2023) Middle England’s empire : social reproduction in the colonial global economy. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Copyright © 2023 by Political Studies Association. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/bpi Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by a CC-BY-NC Creative Commons licence. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 June 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 August 2023 | ||||||||
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