The Boomerang

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Amaseser was a martiniquan post colonial scholar. One of the most cyphel voices for understanding this dynamic that the relationship between the colonial metropole and the colonial hinterland produces. The idea of the boomerang has been taken up by a variety of different scholars across different traditions. Siser's understanding of that, i think, is a really useful launching point to thinking about the changing global economic framework that were facing ho in the 20 first try.

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig