Caroline S Ponder
Biographic Data
| ID | 10178174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline S Ponder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ponder |
| SIGNATURE | PONDER C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2371-8149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For a new Dark Age in urban theory
In ‘On Resisting the Seduction of Theory’, Robert Lake suggests theory is not fit for purpose. In this commentary, I suggest theory doesn’t mean what he thinks it means and that his envisioned alternative of ‘doing’ won’t, in the current moment, produce the results he seeks. In lieu, I propose that an ethics of both knowing and doing might be what urban academics most need right now
Decentring urban climate finance. Introduction to the Special Feature
Financial agendas centering on the global fight against climate change have increasingly turned to cities and urban re/development projects as ideal candidates for supposedly ‘future proof’ investment. In the last decade, research has witnessed the development of policy programs, risk assessments, and project pipelines, amongst other efforts to materialize this agenda in the city. Drawing on critical urban geographies of what is loosely known as …
Making climate finance: Toward everyday, historically informed, and reparative understandings
The centering of climate finance around a narrow set of institutions, sites, instruments, practices, and technologies is an achievement made possible by the domination of finance capital and policy elites. In this intervention, we shift the spotlight away from such elite projects and practices in favor of a wider understanding of urban climate finance—one that includes a more diverse set of sites, activities and participants. A wider and more inc…
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: How climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
The interactions between climate change and financial markets are increasingly becoming a topic of study, yet the ways in which climate finance reinforces new modes of racialization in urban climate adaptation projects remain an under-represented line of questioning in both academic and policy worlds. In order to uncover myriad processes of racialization occurring within financing modes that are mobilized to solve the climate crisis, this paper f…
Spatializing the Municipal Bond Market: Urban Resilience under Racial Capitalism
Majority-Black cities in North America are not often described in the academic literature as such. Racial capitalism is a restorative approach that puts majority-Black cities in the Global North into analytical relation with other cities in the global urban landscape. This is an important step to take for many reasons, including rising interest in conversations about the financial production of urban natures in the context of climate change. More…
Contracting-out care: The socio-spatial politics of nursing home care at the intersection of British Columbia’s labor, land, and capital markets
The provincial health services labor market was fundamentally altered in 2002 with the introduction of a series of legislative and policy changes enabling the contracting-out, or subcontracting, of care workers in nursing home facilities in order to encourage private sector investment in nursing home infrastructure and provision. This legislation was intended to shrink provincial expenses and replace aging facilities through partnerships with the…
Spatializing the Municipal Bond Market: Urban Resilience under Racial Capitalism
Majority-Black cities in North America are not often described in the academic literature as such. Racial capitalism is a restorative approach that puts majority-Black cities in the Global North into analytical relation with other cities in the global urban landscape. This is an important step to take for many reasons, including rising interest in conversations about the financial production of urban natures in the context of climate change. More…
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: How climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
The interactions between climate change and financial markets are increasingly becoming a topic of study, yet the ways in which climate finance reinforces new modes of racialization in urban climate adaptation projects remain an under-represented line of questioning in both academic and policy worlds. In order to uncover myriad processes of racialization occurring within financing modes that are mobilized to solve the climate crisis, this paper f…
Making climate finance: Toward everyday, historically informed, and reparative understandings
The centering of climate finance around a narrow set of institutions, sites, instruments, practices, and technologies is an achievement made possible by the domination of finance capital and policy elites. In this intervention, we shift the spotlight away from such elite projects and practices in favor of a wider understanding of urban climate finance—one that includes a more diverse set of sites, activities and participants. A wider and more inc…
Contracting-out care: The socio-spatial politics of nursing home care at the intersection of British Columbia’s labor, land, and capital markets
The provincial health services labor market was fundamentally altered in 2002 with the introduction of a series of legislative and policy changes enabling the contracting-out, or subcontracting, of care workers in nursing home facilities in order to encourage private sector investment in nursing home infrastructure and provision. This legislation was intended to shrink provincial expenses and replace aging facilities through partnerships with the…
Contracting-out care: The socio-spatial politics of nursing home care at the intersection of British Columbia’s labor, land, and capital markets
The provincial health services labor market was fundamentally altered in 2002 with the introduction of a series of legislative and policy changes enabling the contracting-out, or subcontracting, of care workers in nursing home facilities in order to encourage private sector investment in nursing home infrastructure and provision. This legislation was intended to shrink provincial expenses and replace aging facilities through partnerships with the…
Spatializing the Municipal Bond Market: Urban Resilience under Racial Capitalism
Majority-Black cities in North America are not often described in the academic literature as such. Racial capitalism is a restorative approach that puts majority-Black cities in the Global North into analytical relation with other cities in the global urban landscape. This is an important step to take for many reasons, including rising interest in conversations about the financial production of urban natures in the context of climate change. More…
Making climate finance: Toward everyday, historically informed, and reparative understandings
The centering of climate finance around a narrow set of institutions, sites, instruments, practices, and technologies is an achievement made possible by the domination of finance capital and policy elites. In this intervention, we shift the spotlight away from such elite projects and practices in favor of a wider understanding of urban climate finance—one that includes a more diverse set of sites, activities and participants. A wider and more inc…
The ‘colorblindness’ of climate finance: How climate finance advances racial injustice in cities
The interactions between climate change and financial markets are increasingly becoming a topic of study, yet the ways in which climate finance reinforces new modes of racialization in urban climate adaptation projects remain an under-represented line of questioning in both academic and policy worlds. In order to uncover myriad processes of racialization occurring within financing modes that are mobilized to solve the climate crisis, this paper f…
For a new Dark Age in urban theory
In ‘On Resisting the Seduction of Theory’, Robert Lake suggests theory is not fit for purpose. In this commentary, I suggest theory doesn’t mean what he thinks it means and that his envisioned alternative of ‘doing’ won’t, in the current moment, produce the results he seeks. In lieu, I propose that an ethics of both knowing and doing might be what urban academics most need right now
Decentring urban climate finance. Introduction to the Special Feature
Financial agendas centering on the global fight against climate change have increasingly turned to cities and urban re/development projects as ideal candidates for supposedly ‘future proof’ investment. In the last decade, research has witnessed the development of policy programs, risk assessments, and project pipelines, amongst other efforts to materialize this agenda in the city. Drawing on critical urban geographies of what is loosely known as …
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Climate Finance (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Housing Market and Economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works)