Afterword: Seeking resources of hope for a different type of emancipatory future?

This book articulates a new colonialism: where advanced global capitalism in its neo-liberal mode meets colonial histories and imperial legacies and extends them in multiple forms. It shows how the city is part of an ongoing imperial construction and how the making of cities has involved raced modes of dispossession, of displacement and of police violence (see Lipman interview in this volume). And that although cities are contextualised and framed by their own nation states and have specific cases to answer, this book reveals how there is a much wider global reach to imperial and racial violence.