Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
The vast hinterlands of the Global South’s cities are generating new solidarities and ideas of what counts as a life worth living.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.
They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.