Finance
Financialisation has become a widespread phenomenon across Global North and Global South, cities and rural areas, public and private sectors of the economy. I’m interested in exploring more closely the relationship between capital and finance and how capital imagines itself through finance. I take a historically embedded approach to finance, studying continuities spanning from the ‘Financial Revolution’ and connections between imperial cities in colonies and metropoles and how these inform contemporary debt relations at levels of the states and in everyday lives realities of borrowers and lenders. For this, I look closely at legal and sociological vernaculars of finance and how it works towards moving away from language of debt, indebtedness and violence.
My work on financialisation has focused on (gendered) credit relations and the proliferation of financial products such as, impact investing, gender lens investing, development impact bonds and how these change and challenge the political fabric of postcolonial states.
I also study the place of urban and gendered aesthetics in finance and its everyday performances and the ways in which contemporary finance maps onto historicized hierarchies of urbanity.
I have also worked as a researcher for the Global Health Centre in studying the relationship between financialisation and biopolitics as the human body provides new sites for financial assetization and extraction.
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