ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Insubordinate Finance? The postcolonial politics of financial centers in the Global South
Cities in the global North have served for centuries as the command-and-control centers of global finance. They have long determined the unequal access to credit and often harsh conditions of debt repayment for people, businesses, and states across the world. This control has maintained colonial power inequalities that many scholars now characterize as 'international financial subordination'. Yet in recent years, an increasing number of officials, citizens, and professionals across the Global South have mounted a surprising opposition to the Northern subordination of Southern finance. Since the turn of the new millennium, financial centers located in cities across the Global South have…
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