Reproductive Racial Capitalism: New Theoretical Perspectives Exploring Inequalities

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Course Description

With focus on reproductive racial capitalism perspectives, the course examines key ideas and concepts underlying both historical and contemporary thinking and debates in understanding interwoven perspectives on exploitation, oppression and exclusion. Racial capitalism, within the wider frame of anticolonial social theory, has increasingly been used to analyze local, national and transnational global processes of racialized social relations today. Recently, named as reproductive racial capitalism, it has developed into theorizing intersections around reproduction (gender and sexualities), race and racisms (hierarchizations of humans) and capitalism (class and exploitation). Inspired by the black radical tradition and epistemology of hope, reproductive racial capitalism is also a perspective for analyzing resistance, struggles and the epistemology of hope. Interrogating methodological nationalism, the course explores theoretical traditions that have in diverse ways developed anticolonial social theory, from connected sociologies to Southern Theory and indigenous scholarship. The course engages with Black feminist perspectives, critical race theories and neo-Marxist approaches linking the local, the national, and the global. The course aims to stimulate and enhance students’ ability to carry out theoretically informed empirical research.

Course Lecturers

Professor Anders Neergaard, REMESO, Linköping University

Confirmed International Lecturers: TBA

How to Apply

In the form below you will find more details on how to apply. 

Deadline: 1 April 2026

Contact

For further information contact the course leaders: Anders Neergaard anders.neergaard@li.se

About the Graduate School in Migration and Integration

• Our Graduate School courses are offered to PhD students.
• 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University or at SOCAV & CGM, University of Gothenburg.
• All courses are taught in English.
• Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
• Accommodation is provided for free to all PhD students who are admitted to our courses.