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The Capitalist State in the 2020s: Borders and carceral infrastructure

02 April 2025, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm

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This series of four collaborative workshops will examine the evolution of the capitalist state in the contemporary moment, focussing on industrial strategy and financialization, militarism, and borders and carceral infrastructures.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Cost

Free

Organiser

Matteo Tiratelli

Location

Room 822
UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
  • Lewis Barnes: Profiling Risks and Algorithmic Statecraft
  • Tom O’Grady: Pessimism Bias - How Criminal Justice Policymakers View their Political Constraints
  • Kyla Simone Piccin: Securitization and Carceral Power in Canadian Resource Extraction
  • Ayan Meer: Migrant Capitalism - Accumulation, Borders, and the New Migration-Development Nexus
  • Taif Alkhudary: Slow Violence and the Politics of Carceral Time

Please get in touch with Matteo Tiratelli (m.tiratelli@ucl.ac.uk) for more information.

The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.