White is one of the most innovative, refreshingly different analyses of race I have read in the last decade. —Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely The village of Anjuna, located in the coastal Indian state of Goa, has been one of the premier destinations on the global rave scene for nearly two decades. The birthplace of Goa trance, the most psychedelic variety of electronic dance music, Anjuna first attracted adventurous Westerners in the 1970s who were drawn there by its tropical beaches, tolerant locals, and readily available drugs. Today, rave tourists travel to Goa to take part in round-the-clock dance parties and lose themselves in the crowds, the music, and the drugs. But do they really escape where they come from and who they are? A rich and theoretically sophisticated ethnography, Psychedelic White explains how race plays out in Goa’s white counterculture and grapples with how to make sense of racism when it is not supposed to be there. Goa is a site of particularly revealing forms of interracial collision, and contrary to author Arun Saldanha’s expectations that the nature of rave would create an inclusive atmosphere, he repeatedly witnessed stark segregation between white and Indian tourists. He came to understand race in its creative dimension as a shifting and fuzzy assemblage of practices, environments, sounds, and substances—dance skills, sunlight, conversation, cannabis, and tea. In doing so, his work shows how the rave scene in Goa harbors conflicting tendencies regarding race. The complicated intersection of cultures and phenotypes, Saldanha asserts, helps to consolidate whiteness. Race emerges not through rigid boundaries but rather through what he terms viscosity, the degree to which bodies gather together for pleasure and self-transformation. Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering building on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Psychedelic White presents nothing less than a new materialist approach to race.

While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the places it is sold and the manner in which it is eaten? How do we understand farming and provisioning, tasting and picking, eating and being eaten, hunger and gardening better by paying attention to race? This collection argues there is an unacknowledged racial dimension to the production and consumption of food under globalization. Building on case studies from across the world, it advances the conceptualization of race by emphasizing embodiment, circulation and materiality, while adding to food advocacy an antiracist perspective it often lacks. Within the three socio-physical spatialities of food - fields, bodies and markets - the collection reveals how race and food are intricately linked. An international and multidisciplinary team of scholars complements each other to shed light on how human groups become entrenched in myriad hierarchies through food, at scales from the dining room and market stall to the slave trade and empire. Following foodways as they constitute racial formations in often surprising ways, the chapters achieve a novel approach to the process of race as one that cannot be reduced to biology, culture or capitalism. Contents: Foreword, Julie Guthman; Geographies of race and food: an introduction, Rachel Slocum and Arun Saldanha; Race in the study of food, Rachel Slocum; Part I Fields - Ecology, Labor, Inequality: Fields of survival, foods of memory, Judith Carney; ‘ The issue is basically one of race’: Braceros, the labor process, and the making of the agro-industrial landscape of mid-20th century California, Don Mitchell; Sensations of food: growing for the nation and eating with the hand in Bahia, Brazil, Susan Paulson; Urban agriculture and race in South Africa, Jane Battersby; Peas and praxis: organizing food justice through the direct action of the Newtown Florist Club, Newtown Florist Club Writing Collective. Part II Bodies - Diet, Taste, Biopolitics: Sustaining difference: climate change, diet and the materiality of race, Nigel Clark and Yasmin Gunaratam; Objet petit, eh? Consuming multiculturalism and superorganic food at the Persian Nowruz celebrations, West Vancouver, Nazanin Naraghi and Paul Kingsbury; Dishing up difference: assemblages of food, home, and migrant women in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand, Robyn Longhurst and Lynda Johnston; Maetify the weak! Cannibalism and (post)colonial politics, Rick Dolphijn; Food in Australia’s Northern Territory emergency response: a Foucauldian perspective on the biopolitics of new race/pleasure wars, Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Deirdre Tedmanson. Part III Markets - Exchange, Commodification, Empire: Linking food deserts and racial segregation: challenges and limitations, Hilda E. Kurtz; White bread bio-politics: purity, health, and the triumph of industrial baking, Aaron Bobrow-Strain; Skinning the banana trade: racial erotics and ethical consumption, Mimi Sheller; Monopoly’s violence: Georges Bataille explains the early Dutch spice trade, Arun Saldanha; Afterword - biocultural entanglements, Elspeth Probyn; Index. Reviews: ‘Critical approaches to race and food have travelled along parallel tracks for too long, seemingly unaware of each other’s concerns. Slocum and Saldanha have now brought these separate strands into productive conversation, tracing the geographies of race and food across fields, bodies and markets, highlighting genuine opportunities for progressive change.’ Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK ‘Race and food, food and race. If at first blush this seems an unlikely mix, think again. Starvation, obesity, nutrition, anorexia, food security, food safety, food sovereignty, soul food, diasporic cuisine, the live animal trade, food deserts, eating practices, farmers’ markets, white bread bio-politics, hunger strikes, the very matter of human variability, the colonial histories and geographies of agriculture, bananas, cocoa, sugar and spice…these are just some of the ingredients with which this volume blends the fields of race and food, richly expanding the critical remit of both.’ Kay Anderson, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Deleuze’s fondness for geography has long been recognized as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization, war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and political questions about globalization in a variety of disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze’s corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why he can be called the 20th century’s most imaginative thinker of space. Space After Deleuze is the first book to make clear to a student audience how Deleuze and thinkers close to him (Guattari, Foucault, Marx, Darwin) allow for a robust and politically engaged framework for studying spatial phenomena such as cities, nation-states, climate change, migration and map art. Anyone with an interest in refining a wide range of concepts, from territory, assemblage, to body, event, and the Anthropocene will learn much from the “geophilosophy” which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for our critical times.

The first collection to theorise race and racism through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze In this volume, an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars inaugurates the Deleuzian study of race through a wide-ranging and evocative array of case studies. Deleuze and Guattari provided new concepts of how humans are differentiated, through processes of state formation, capitalism, madness and desire. While sexual difference has received much attention in Deleuze studies, racial difference is a thornier problematic. As this collection of essays shows, Deleuze and Guattari had extremely original things to say about race, and the politics of phenotype and origin is never far from any engaged consideration of how the world works. Key Features Unpacks the implicit and explicit references to race across Deleuze’s body of work, with a special focus on the Capitalism and Schizophrenia works written with Guattari Couples Deleuze with other theorists of race, such as Foucault, Butler and Gilroy Draws examples from the arts, current affairs and history Contributors include Claire Colebrook, John E. Drabinski, Ian Buchanan and Laura U. Marks