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作者

Malini Ranganathan

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue4,P.492-496

语言

英文

关键字

Settler colonialism,empire,liberalism,rail infrastructure,racial finance capitalism

作者单位

School of International Service, American University , Washington, DC, USA

摘要

Deborah Cowen has written an illuminating paper on the nineteenth-century making of rail infrastructure and the Canadian metropolis. She connects the dots between the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) and its nodal North American cities on the one hand, and transatlantic finance and its bankrolling by racial slavery and colonialism on the one hand. It is a significant enterprise to write on one topic or the other – that is, on the history of urban infrastructures or on racial capitalism. But Cowen writes into view a global panoramic through which flows of British imperial capital are seen to be connected intimately with the development of rail infrastructure and metropolitan space in settler-colonial Canada. KEYWORDS: Settler colonialismempireliberalismrail infrastructureracial finance capitalism Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.