Critical Political Economist -- Author: A critical history of poverty finance (http://bit.ly/3pEV7Cf); Fictions of financialization (http://bit.ly/3PUWzdR) -- Reader in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick.
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Nick Bernards
New article! On the echoes between projects of 'financial inclusion' and colonial statecraft.
Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social, in an incredible SI on raced finance ed. by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social
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New article!
@giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, Laura Quinteros and I on experiments with ‘green fintech’, and what they tell us about green finance as a form of fictitious capital.
Just out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social.
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🚨New article w/ @savannahcox.bsky.social & @zacjtaylor.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social🚨 "Inscription networks: finance, infrastructural power, and the governance of climate risk" explores a longstanding player in state-market entanglements -Moody's- as it shapes how climate change is governed.
University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million.
This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement.
Govt looking the other way
Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online!
Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.
Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism: Review of International Political Economy @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social
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New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social
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#geosky #ipesky
New open access article on @antipodeonline.bsky.social with @nickbernards.bsky.social and Laura Quinteros. We look at green fintech to show how green finance works as fictitious capital. Builds on @cedricdurand.bsky.social
With thanks to @alirizataskale.bsky.social for putting this special issue together!
How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts?
Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies.
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Nick Bernards
Nick Bernards
Global environmental governance has long been predicated on a normative compromise, commonly referred to as ‘liberal environmentalism’, which posits that addressing global environmental challenges ...
New article!
@giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, Laura Quinteros and I on experiments with ‘green fintech’, and what they tell us about green finance as a form of fictitious capital.
Just out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Giulia Dal Maso
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Max Haiven
Nick Bernards
The university hopes the move will stop it from running out of cash
The fifth article in the special issue I’m editing on Silicon Valley is out!
@maxhaiven.bsky.social introduces the Worker as Futurist project: 13 Amazon workers writing speculative fiction about ‘The World After Amazon’ - reclaiming the future from those who’ve monopolized the right to imagine it.
