A review by marireadstoomuch
Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State by Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Kojo Koram, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Dalia Gebrial

5.0

Really, really good — well-articulated and really accessible. The authors very purposefully make chapters short and the book as a whole is only 200 pages, which both makes it extremely readable and extremely impressive that it can engage with and unpack so many different things. Sometimes it suffered from a failure to define terms/assumption that readers are familiar with them (biopolitics is used but not defined; necropolitics, conversely, is described but not named), but on the whole I could not stop telling people about this text and suggesting the give it a go. A very solid provocation on the state of our present and the direction of our future.