Austerity has become a key consideration for studying ongoing state restructuring of the urban since the economic crisis of 2008. However, academic debates have yet to fully interrogate the role of race in this process. This article reviews geographic literature on race and austerity. It outlines the emergence of austerity urbanism, and the geographic, sociological, and political science literatures from which it draws its origins from. Focusing on the interplay between race/racialization and austerity, this article engages with critical theories of race to better understand the “raced” nature of austerity, and how these processes shape cities. Critical theories of race have been influential in linking race to forms of state power and governance in geography, while also exploring racism as a material and discursive formation that is connected across space and time by capital. Austerity urbanism literature has yet to develop a sophisticated analysis of the racialized dimensions of austerity in the U.S. context. Rather, scholarship up to date theorizes race through fixed categories, where racialized groups are seen and mapped onto austerity policy outcomes. In this paper, I propose that critical theories of race can provide an analytical framework for geographers to better understand the relations between race and austerity through the lens of racial capitalism by revealing how periods of neoliberalization are organized along racial lines and operate through and upon terrains of racial domination and empire. This means framing race and racism as a process (i.e., racialization) that is inextricably embedded in the logic of the neoliberal project. This paper concludes with commentary on possible future directions, both empirical and conceptual, that engagements with racial capitalism can offer to the literature on austerity urbanism to interrogate race, power, and justice across the Global North and South.

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对种族和紧缩都市主义地理的反思

自2008年经济危机以来，紧缩政策已成为研究正在进行的城市结构调整的主要考虑因素。然而，学术辩论尚未充分审视种族在这一过程中的作用。本文回顾了有关种族和紧缩政策的地理文献。它概述了紧缩都市主义的出现，以及其起源的地理，社会学和政治科学文献。本文着眼于种族/种族化与紧缩之间的相互作用，着眼于种族的批判理论，以更好地理解紧缩的“种族”性质，以及这些过程如何塑造城市。种族的批判理论对于将种族与地理上的国家权力和治理形式联系起来具有影响力，同时还将种族主义视为物质和话语形式，并通过资本跨越时空。紧缩都市主义文献尚未对美国背景下紧缩政策的种族化维度进行过详尽的分析。而是，最新的奖学金通过固定类别对种族进行理论化，在那里可以看到种族群体，并将其映射到紧缩政策的成果上。在本文中，我提出种族的批判理论可以为地理学家提供一个分析框架，以揭示种族主义和紧缩之间的关系，这是通过种族资本主义的视角来揭示的，新自由化时期是如何沿着种族路线组织的，并在地形上和地形上运作种族统治和帝国。这意味着将种族和种族主义定为一个过程（即，种族化）紧密地嵌入了新自由主义项目的逻辑中。本文以对未来可能的方向（无论是经验的还是概念的）进行评论，认为与种族资本主义的交往可以为紧缩的城市主义文献提供参考，以审视全球北方和南方的种族，权力和正义。