White Order, Corporate Capital, and Control of Mobility in the Netherlands

In this chapter we introduce the concept of “white order” to address the violent spatialising practices that racialise and dispossess urban populations in the Netherlands. We propose “white order” as an analytic tool to account for how populations and capital are spatially and socially “ordered” in the Netherlands. We make explicit the construction of Dutch whiteness as regulated space and behaviour, geared towards the accumulation of wealth. Finally we expose how whiteness is narrated through colonial tropes and enforced through management techniques –normalized violence- equally indebted to colonialism.