ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
COLFIN: Colonial Financial Infrastructures
COLFIN develops a new approach to understanding and responding to the colonial durabilities in modern financial infrastructures. The starting point is that the relation between finance and colonialism is infrastructural, not purely related to individual families or companies. Financial innovation co-evolved with colonial expansion and vice versa. The longer time horizons, transnational payments and novel uncertainties of colonial expansion are at the heart of modern financial innovation. Academic literatures acknowledge this but largely write colonial violence out of the history of finance. The aim of COLFIN is to understand and analyse how the experimental beginnings and development of…
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