Raymond Craib

Adventure Capitalism (eBook, PDF)

A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls libertarian exit. Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary capitalism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exitseasteads, free private cities, and space colonizationit is also a history of our future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629639277
• Artikelnr.: 61622425

Autorenporträt

Raymond Craib is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, and with Barry Maxwell, co-editor of No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Introduction: Adventure capitalism and speculative non-fiction
Part I: Origins (1960s)
1: Libertarian Exit: Fear and Loathing USA
Part II: Manifestations (1970–1980)
2: The Lure of Atlantis: Ocean, Empire, and the Minerva Reefs
3: Libertarian Noir: Free Market Mercenaries in the Caribbean
4: From Farce to Tragedy: Decolonization and Adventure Capitalism in the
New Hebrides
Part III: Iterations (1980s–present)
5: Burning Man on the High Seas: Seasteading
6: Seeing Like a Country Club: Private Cities at the Edges of Honduras
Epilogue: The World Lies Waiting…
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index