Vanessa E Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa E Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa E |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON V E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Surplusification, Carceral Violence, and Super-Exploitation in Europe
The concept of racial capitalism has been widely discussed in academic and activist circles for some years now. While much of the debate focuses on specific readings and employments of the concept, this article argues that racial capitalism is helpful to analyze and critique the relation between increasing state and border violence on the one hand, and ongoing forms of unfree labor on the other. Drawing on accounts from various European contexts,…
Surplus Fascism
Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate about the form, causes, and effects of fascism. This article discusses fascism as a response to and driver of surplus crisis. Taking its cue from Marx’s analysis of the importance of relative surplus populations for the functioning of capital, it exp…
Policing as Un‐Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe
The nexus of racism and policing has gained much political attention in Europe since the 2020 mass protests that followed the uprisings after the murder of George Floyd in the US. While many protestors signalled solidarity with policed subjects in the US, they also emphasised the role of state violence “at home”. This paper engages with the relation between policing and state racism in contemporary continental Europe by employing breathing as a m…
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism
A Politic of Collective Struggle and Resistance
From the Black Mediterranean to liberation
Feldforschung als soziale Praxis
Policing in Europe
Over the last few years, the intersections between mental health and punitive violence have gained more attention within scholarship and activism around race and policing. Disability justice and intersectional approaches have argued that the discourses around and categorisations of various forms of disability are deeply rooted in projects of colonialism and enslavement, and their legacies. These discourses are strongly enacted in contemporary log…
Repairing Worlds
Departing from the thought-provoking conversation between David Theo Goldberg and Achille Mbembe on the driving themes in Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason, this commentary elaborates upon three topics that emerge in this conversation: the role of desire and how it is articulated in black abjection, the politics of care, and contemporary practices of repairing the injustices perpetrated in the context of European modernity. It is emphasized that …
Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 44-63
Policing in Europe
Over the last few years, the intersections between mental health and punitive violence have gained more attention within scholarship and activism around race and policing. Disability justice and intersectional approaches have argued that the discourses around and categorisations of various forms of disability are deeply rooted in projects of colonialism and enslavement, and their legacies. These discourses are strongly enacted in contemporary log…
Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 44-63
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism
Repairing Worlds
Departing from the thought-provoking conversation between David Theo Goldberg and Achille Mbembe on the driving themes in Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason, this commentary elaborates upon three topics that emerge in this conversation: the role of desire and how it is articulated in black abjection, the politics of care, and contemporary practices of repairing the injustices perpetrated in the context of European modernity. It is emphasized that …
Repairing Worlds
Departing from the thought-provoking conversation between David Theo Goldberg and Achille Mbembe on the driving themes in Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason, this commentary elaborates upon three topics that emerge in this conversation: the role of desire and how it is articulated in black abjection, the politics of care, and contemporary practices of repairing the injustices perpetrated in the context of European modernity. It is emphasized that …
Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 44-63
Feldforschung als soziale Praxis
Policing in Europe
Over the last few years, the intersections between mental health and punitive violence have gained more attention within scholarship and activism around race and policing. Disability justice and intersectional approaches have argued that the discourses around and categorisations of various forms of disability are deeply rooted in projects of colonialism and enslavement, and their legacies. These discourses are strongly enacted in contemporary log…
From the Black Mediterranean to liberation
A Politic of Collective Struggle and Resistance
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism
Surplusification, Carceral Violence, and Super-Exploitation in Europe
The concept of racial capitalism has been widely discussed in academic and activist circles for some years now. While much of the debate focuses on specific readings and employments of the concept, this article argues that racial capitalism is helpful to analyze and critique the relation between increasing state and border violence on the one hand, and ongoing forms of unfree labor on the other. Drawing on accounts from various European contexts,…
Surplus Fascism
Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate about the form, causes, and effects of fascism. This article discusses fascism as a response to and driver of surplus crisis. Taking its cue from Marx’s analysis of the importance of relative surplus populations for the functioning of capital, it exp…
Policing as Un‐Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe
The nexus of racism and policing has gained much political attention in Europe since the 2020 mass protests that followed the uprisings after the murder of George Floyd in the US. While many protestors signalled solidarity with policed subjects in the US, they also emphasised the role of state violence “at home”. This paper engages with the relation between policing and state racism in contemporary continental Europe by employing breathing as a m…
Politics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Racism (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works)