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Beschreibung
In this provocative and thoughtful new book, Kenan van de Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt, and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history is never simply the past but actively shapes the present.

Demands that reparations be paid for slavery and European colonialism have echoed around the world, igniting a fierce debate and exposing the historical foundations of today’s inequalities. The Weight of Nightmares argues that reparations are not just about the past. They promise to transform the present by confronting structures that reproduce relations of production and racial domination from one generation to the next.

What would it mean to undo capitalism’s logic of time to imagine a radically different future? A politics of reparation would reconfigure time itself, opening new narratives and collective possibilities.
In this provocative and thoughtful new book, Kenan van de Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt, and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history is never simply the past but actively shapes the present.

Demands that reparations be paid for slavery and European colonialism have echoed around the world, igniting a fierce debate and exposing the historical foundations of today’s inequalities. The Weight of Nightmares argues that reparations are not just about the past. They promise to transform the present by confronting structures that reproduce relations of production and racial domination from one generation to the next.

What would it mean to undo capitalism’s logic of time to imagine a radically different future? A politics of reparation would reconfigure time itself, opening new narratives and collective possibilities.
Über den Autor
Kenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani is an author based in Brussels. He is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-founder of the International Network for Theory of History.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Temporal power
I.A politics of time
[...] a politics to a poetics of time
III.Reparations talk: a debate across boarders
IV.A longer view of the history of reparations

2 The historical present as an ideological category
[...] historical present
[...] ideological category
[...] hermeneutics of racism

3 Inheriting debt, sin and the curse of Ham
I.Intergenerational justice
II."Ancestral fault"
[...] Curse of Ham, Original Sin and its critics
[...] and Money
V.National responsibility
[...] persistence of sin

4 Value in time and time as value
[...] time value of money
[...] price of reparations, the profitability of slavery and the Williams thesis
[...] consummate automatic fetish: fictitious capital, derivatives and time
IV.Accounting for value: slavery, money, value and time in Marx
[...] labour and the layers of historical development
[...] homogenization of historical time: money’s functions as an instrument of temporality

5 Badges and incidents of slavery
I.Retrospective politics?
[...] Structure of racism
III.Epidermialization: Stuart Hall and the semiotics of "race"
IV.Transforming Traditions: dismantling ethnoracial domination

6 A new temporality?
[...] reproduction of the relations of production and ethnoracial domination

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781836741688
ISBN-10: 1836741685
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mieroop-Al Bahrani, Kenan van de
Hersteller: Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Kenan van de Mieroop-Al Bahrani
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.2026
Gewicht: 0,248 kg
Artikel-ID: 136387339

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