Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism : Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cernusáková, Barbora.

Series:

New Ethnographies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanies.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book argues that Roma became a racialised surplus population of post-socialism. It is a critical contribution to the study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Series editor's foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Racialisation during socialism and capitalism

Theoretical intervention: racial capitalism meets relative surplus population

A note on methodology

Terminology

Overview of this book

Notes

Chapter 1: A 'Roma neighbourhood' and the political economy of spatial segregation

The city and the neighbourhood

Racial confinement through housing

The state and the charities

The housing entrepreneurs

Racialised everyday life

Schools as agents of racialised confinement

Life in the neighbourhood beyond stigma

Critique of the concept of 'excluded localities'

Conclusion: marginalised space, disposable workers

Chapter 2: Stuck in low-paid precarious work

Roma under racial capitalism

Disciplining and surveillance through racialisation

Gender and labour market precarity

State interventions leading to racialised precarity

Roma as racialised undeserving poor

Racially coded cheap labour in Czechia

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Disciplined through unpayable debt

Debt and racialised social reproduction

Trajectories to debt

Non-bank institutions

Pawnshops

Small-scale usurers

Debt and confinement in low-paid jobs

Debt and racialised labour precarity

The state: giving rise to a predatory debt industry

Predatory debt enforcement

Debt enforcement against children

Debt in space

Local food purchases on credit

Gendered management of household debts

Idealised communities

Disciplined workers

Chapter 4: The state and the racialised surplus population

Czech racial capitalism

Historical framework of disciplining Roma

Production of racial categories through work….

…through housing…

…and through welfare

'Social inclusion' in the service of capital accumulation

The ongoing crisis of social reproduction

Conclusion: reproduction of the relative surplus population

Chapter 5: Issues with ethnographic research

Data collection

Data analysis

Theory and data

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Cernusáková, Barbora Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism

ISBN:

9781526181862

OCLC:

1579001999