...Max Haiven This essay seeks to draw connections between, on the one hand, the financialization of the global economy and everyday life in the post – Bretton Woods era (post-1973) and, on the other, the simultaneous rise to prominence of discourses of creativity in the “new economy.” It argues...

...Jordana Rosenberg; Britt Rusert This essay provides a framework for the literary analysis of financialization during the period recently termed “the long 1970s” and contributes to recent historical scholarship on the rise of finance and economic crises by focusing on literary forms of popular...

...Leigh Claire La Berge This essay tracks how discourses of abstraction and complexity have been deployed in both academic and popular writing about finance, financialization, and the financial services industry. It begins with the assumption that “abstract” is perhaps the most commonly used...

...Peter Edelberg During the summer of 2007, the Danish Gay and Lesbian Union handed over its archives to the National Archive of Denmark due to financial difficulties in the union. The archive has been kept safe and available for researchers since. In this article, gay historian Peter Edelberg...

... story of democratic socialism. But this success could not stop consumer shortages, programmed financial losses, or the counterrevolution outside the factory gates. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 Allende's Chile revolution workers comanagement democratic...

..., the MBK initiative has gained significant attention and financial support. This article considers to what extent MBK misses a real opportunity to improve the lives of youth of color by recycling much of the problematic assumptions of its 1965 predecessor, the Moynihan Report. It seeks to raise key...

.... This framework shares physical, structural, and financial similarities with the institution of slavery and interacts with a variety of modern American social institutions (including the education and criminal justice systems). Sports provide a way for society to judge the value of young black men, prior...

...Romina A. Green Rioja Abstract This article argues that Argentina’s recent feminist “green wave” emerged from the political militancy of working-class women responding to the economic violence of the 1990s neoliberal reforms and the nation’s financial collapse in 2001. The first section details...

... of this geopolitical phenomenon, this essay juxtaposes the conjuring of transnational Chinese financial capital at Johannesburg’s premier airport with a story of a murder of a Chinese trader by an African employee. “China’s rise” in the Global South presents new frontiers for global capital and a new color line...

... and provides a means to consider how present-day efforts to foreclose the genealogies of historical injustice have been shaped in response to the contemporary crisis of global capitalism and financialization. Focusing on the salience of racialization and settler colonialism, this essay studies how and why...

...Hannah Chadeayne Appel In this interview David Graeber discusses the radical politics of his childhood, his own political trajectory through the globalization movement, and how Occupy Wall Street both emerged and departed from that genealogy. Turning to questions of intensifying financialization...

... of capitalism. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it appeared as if finance's voice had finally spoken, just as the introduction of sound technology gave the appearance of an embodied, laboring voice. As the voice and finance were both always present throughout, the article attempts to locate...

... articles on financialization have appeared in journals including Social Text, Cultural Studies, Cultural Politics, and Mediations. His first book,Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power, will be published by Zed Books in March of 2014. More information can be found at maxhaiven.com. Leigh Claire La...

... History Review For Johnson a single institution and a single individual were responsible for the US intervention: the National City Bank of New York — the precursor to the contemporary financial services leviathan Citigroup — and its vice president Roger Leslie Farnham. “To know...

... reflect here on the rela- tionship between religion and nationalism at the time, and the role of merchants and financiers such as Chiha in the building of the independent nation-state that was to become Lebanon. 03-Hartman.btw 4/16/03 2:59 PM Page 39...

... clear that it did not want to address monetary policy and financial investment shortcomings in the process—that is, tackle the deep-rooted and highly dysfunctional financial and economic power blocs within the state. As a result, Ireland missed the opportunity offered by the new markets of postwar...

... to wage wars, operate military bases, finance client states, and invest in foreign branches of multinational corporations, with total disregard for the promise the United States had made to back up the dollars with gold. In effect, the United States in its financial, as in its political...

... skyscrapers in Manhattan to factories in Bangladesh. Boilerplate financial language of “networks” and “flows” masks this process, this fixing, dematerializes how and where and when finance capital finds its ground in the labors of the commodity’s circulation. That this process is mediated...

... of over five hundred international financiers, diplomats, foreign advis- ers, and reporters aboard the ocean liner...

... to roll over the municipal debt, New York City was plunged into an unprecedented fiscal crisis and faced bankruptcy. 11 In the face of federal refusals to bail the city out, New York City’s budget was placed under the management of the Emergency Financial Control Board (EFCB), a state body equipped...