Nick Bernards
@BernardsNick
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Reader @warwickGSD. Author: A critical history of poverty finance (https://t.co/0kI4Oibltb); Fictions of financialization (https://t.co/NA8LubunhV). Views mine.
Coventry, UK
Joined August 2018
My book is out! Fictions of Financialization is a critique of ‘financialization’ discourses, and an effort to articulate a renewed Marxist perspective on the power of finance in capitalism. Just published with @PlutoPress! https://t.co/VwdiqyWmhr
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Ghana’s banks are not lending enough to sectors where it matters most, like agriculture and manufacturing https://t.co/KkUd2hORU5 via @TC_Africa @eastsportsman @SethTerkper @thebankofghana @JoyNewsOnTV @tv3_ghana @DevEcoAfr
theconversation.com
Ghanaian bank lending to agriculture and manufacturing is in decline
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Next week! On why capitalist states act in the interests of finance capital, and why it matters.
I’m speaking at @clasp_qmul later this month about finance capital and the state. Really looking forward to it, come by if you’re around! https://t.co/FFpJrilpNU
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I’m speaking at @clasp_qmul later this month about finance capital and the state. Really looking forward to it, come by if you’re around! https://t.co/FFpJrilpNU
claspblog.org
CLaSP invites you for a seminar on finance capital, the state, and politics It's undeniable that the actions of states, multilateral organizations, and local governments globally and over the last...
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The Nigerian state as it exists, to be clear, has little choice but to keep pumping out oil (to generate foreign exchange, make debt payments, etc). And has recently re-written laws to try to attract overseas investment.
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Win LA, win the world. 🌎 @flyarcher's strategic acquisition of Hawthorne Airport will give us an incredible asset in one of the world’s most important eVTOL markets. We’ll look to transform the airport into our hub for Archer’s Los Angeles air taxi network as we ready for
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Renewable energy is only half a transition, and will mean nothing without addressing the social forces underpinning fossil extraction and combustion.
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This is great, except that ‘Africa’s largest petro-state’ has always largely produced oil for export, with dubious benefits (and occasionally major harms) for most Nigerians, and has no plans to stop doing so…
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And every time, this fails to accomplish what it says it's meant to do, and legitimizes and emboldens the fascists in the process.
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I have had multiple versions of said card in the eight years I've lived here, because every few years either Labour or the Tories try to technocrat their way out of having to actually confront or resist the noisy fascists out of secret fear that most people are on their side.
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Just gonna point out that I, a migrant living in Britain, already have a digital ID card that I need to show any time I cross the border, but also to my employer, to rent (though, fascinatingly, not to buy) a place to live, to access most gov't services...
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Our "Back to Dakar" paper is now out in Spanish in this cool special issue on the Memory and Future of Dependency Theory in @Cuadernos_TS: https://t.co/r6ZaeVEMMC The issue: https://t.co/yVb3ErpxJq Thanks to Martín Arboleda, Francisca Benítez & Alonso López for organizing!
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At RRPE, we edited a new special issue of anti-capitalist pedagogies and teaching radical economics. If you are looking for ways to engage students in radical economics and reflect on your own teaching, many interesting contributions to follow. Details in the post quoted:
New Special Issue: Anti-Capitalist Pedagogies and Teaching Radical Economics Edited by Smita Ramnarain, Surbhi Kesar, Andrew Mearman, Gary Mongiovi, Geoffrey Schneider, Mary V. Wrenn. Details of 19 contributions to the SI + 2 invited contributions to what radical means series.
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Popping in to share this new open access book: Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal (Mark Goodale & Olaf Zenker eds.). It was a real pleasure to be part of. Please share widely (1/2)
cambridge.org
Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Reckoning with Law in Excess
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(This also makes it two out of three discussants from this author-meets-critics event a few months back who’ve published some version of their comments, which is kinda cool) https://t.co/y7z94RGVnS
Really excited for this event on Fictions of Financialization at SOAS w/ IIPPE in a few weeks. Come by if you’re around London!
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Really cool to see this great, thoughtful commentary on Fictions of Financialization by Hannah Hasenberger in Finance and Space: https://t.co/xNRoMkA6mJ
tandfonline.com
Financialisation is a key concept in financial geography, used to explain various phenomena. But have we sufficiently explained financialisation? Nick Bernards’ recent book, Fictions of Financializ...
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Just out in @DevandChg — my article "Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’". It argues that Gaza’s devastation and supposed “reconstruction” plans are not ruptures but part of a long settler-colonial project of erasure.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This article examines the destruction of Gaza since October 2023 as part of a longer settler-colonial project in which war, reconstruction and development are inseparably linked. Far from a rupture,...
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my latest in Field Notes on the decay & demise of the modern state as we knew it https://t.co/ULWbD5dPuA
brooklynrail.org
In an illuminating account of a recent Department of Homeland Security job fair, Yanis Varoufuckice relates an encounter with a gaggle of fresh Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruits...
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Join us for the London launch of our book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. And watch this space; we'll be running events across Britain in the coming weeks and months. Register for the London launch via the link in the first comment below.
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Excited to announce my open-access publication “Towards a radical highway geography: Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism”. Available here:
journals.sagepub.com
Highways are vital to global supply chains, enabling the dominant form of circulating goods inland by truck. Within critical economic geography and related disc...
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