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3 Dec, 11 tweets, 6 min read
The first panel for #ImperialInequalities today (1.30pm GMT) is on 'Institutional & Fiscal Issues' looking at ways in which imperial states were financed... often thru processes of dispossession & raising mortgages on appropriated land (eg Ireland)...
taxjustice.net/events/online-…
Papers: Welfare imperialism in Spanish Empire by @JuliaMcClure_; The great gage in Ireland by David Brown; Financial autonomy in French empire by @madeline_woker; & The composite colonial state in Sierra Leone by Laura Channing
The second panel (3.15pm GMT) is on Welfare, Taxation, and Resistance - it explores how beneficiaries of imperial extraction attempted to justify wealth inequalities using notions of the common good, spiritual economy of charity, philanthropy, or welfare provision
Papers: Economic & Spiritual Capital of Galician Emigrants by M.J. Rodríguez-Salgado; Poverty, Health & Imperial Wealth in Scotland by @HearaichHerald; The Imperial Hospital at Potosi by Camille Sallé; & Tax Revolts in Malaya by Yvonne Tan
The first day will conclude (4.45pm GMT) with a fascinating keynote by @vanessahistory on 'Decolonisation is also a movement of money' ... then we'll be back tomorrow with more papers on postcolonial legacies & reparations ...
Day 2 of #ImperialInequalities starts (12.15pm GMT) with an excellent keynote by @nssylla on ‘Colonial Macroeconomics then & now’ on the durability of economic structures, followed by panels on postcolonial legacies & reparations - you can register here: taxjustice.net/events/online-…
#ImperialInequalities Panel 3 (Dec 4, 1pm GMT) examines the lasting legacies of imperial inequalities that were created through unequal taxation regimes ...
Papers: @LylaALatif on the Lure of the Welfare State in Kenya; @alexcobham on Zamindari Empire; @paulrgilbert on Crown Agents & the CDC Group; me on Imperial Taxation & National Welfare in Britain; & Clair Quentin on a jurisprudence of offshore ...
Panel 4 live now on 'Reparations policy and narratives: proposals for addressing colonial injustices through taxation' - with papers by @ArianneShahvisi on 'Global North citizenship as a form of reparations'; Steven Dean on 'Redefining alternative allocation schemes' ...
Also: Kyle Wilmott on 'How settler colonialism is enacted through “taxpayer citizenship”' John P. Maketo on 'Race and gender responsive tax systems in Zimbabwe' & Keval Bharadia on 'Recalibrating financial transaction tax policy narratives towards reparations'
Panel 5 of #ImperialInequalities starts at 4.15pm GMT and is on 'Reparations in action' with Peter Cruchley, Council for World Mission; Priya Lukka, Economist in International Development; Esther Stanford-Xosei, Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe; & Keval Bharadia

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Before the w-w-c narrative gets re-entrenched for a second time... a reminder that, in 2016, data from the Pew Research Centre suggested that it was middle‐class communities that overwhelmingly shifted to Trump & were largely responsible for his victory pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016…
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10 Jul
#HistoryMatters a thread – recent weeks have highlighted issues of how British history is taught, what gets taught as British history & why this matters. How we understand the past has implications for the politics of the present... 1/n
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15 Jun
More on statues and the British empire: 'The sense of self of those objecting to the removal of statues seems to be intimately tied to the idea of Empire having been a force for good in the world. They are profoundly unsettled by arguments to the contrary' ... 1/n
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As Catherine Hall & Nicholas Draper have argued, Britain also paid compensation of £20 million – or the equivalent of 40% of GDP – to those people who had lost 'property' (that is, the human beings they owned) in the process ... 3/n ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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8 Jun
The mores were different then ... One of the earliest and largest revolts by enslaved people in Atlantic history took place in the Portuguese sugar colony of Sao Tome in July 1595 (Seibert 2011) … see also: colonialvoyage.com/revolt-slaves-…
In the late 1600s, an Afro-Brazilian man, Lourenço da Silva de Mendonça, travelled to Rome from Brazil to petition the Pope to abolish the institution of perpetual slavery (Gray 1987) …
José Lingna Nafafé argues further that Mendonça brought a criminal case against nations involved in Atlantic slavery for committing a crime against humanity … as such, the legal debate against slavery was begun by Africans, & not Europeans ... mmppf.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/lou…
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