SLEIGHTS OF HAND: BORDERING, FREE PORTS, AND THE RACIAL CAPITALIST ROOTS OF ECONOMIC NATIONALIST STRATEGIES IN THE US AND THE UK

Ann Kingsolver

doi:10.30676/JFAS.114686

SLEIGHTS OF HAND: BORDERING, FREE PORTS, AND THE RACIAL CAPITALIST ROOTS OF ECONOMIC NATIONALIST STRATEGIES IN THE US AND THE UK

Ann Kingsolver

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Abstract

Sleight-of-hand economic nationalist strategies by recent administrations of the US and UK emphasize the ‘freedom’ of those selectively imagined as belonging to the nation while quietly but pivotally discouraging human mobility and encouraging elite capital mobility. The US and UK’s distinct but connected recent policies—Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) and Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategies—are not exceptional or unique to those specific administrations of each country, but are embedded within long-term, interconnected transnational racial capitalist projects. The sleights of hand promoting selective national publics’ freedom are not only hypocritical but complex to see, especially with White-impaired lenses. This article examines two interrelated technologies of power on which these economic nationalist strategies have relied, bordering and free zones, contributing to research on the complex, varied, and experience-inflected responses US and UK residents have to these policies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10-30
Number of pages	21
Journal	Suomen Antropologi
Volume	47
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.30676/JFAS.114686
State	Published - 2023

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9 This was made possible by living for a year in the UK as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol in 2018/2019, and through a sabbatical grant from the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences. In both of the ethnographic projects drawn on in this article, interviews were done with anthropological ethics review and approval in each nation, and critical discourse analysis was used with interview, archival, and media sources.

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University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences

Keywords

United Kingdom
United States
bordering strategies
economic nationalism
free ports and trade zones
labour
racial capitalism

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