Giulia Dal Maso
Biographic Data
| ID | 140753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulia Dal Maso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulia Dal |
| FAMILY NAME | Maso |
| SIGNATURE | MASO G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9255-0613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antinomies of Green Fintech
This article examines the emergence of “green fintech,” a diverse subset of new financial technologies with expressly environmental aims. We suggest that an analysis of “green fintech” offers us a useful lens on the contradictions of green finance more generally. The paper looks at a range of examples, spanning processes of AI‐enabled investment screening, tokenization, and gamification, and draws recent debates about the Marxian category of “fic…
Green Finance and the Hidden Hand of Algorithmic Planning
Green finance is widely hailed as the solution to environmental and capitalist crises, promising to address climate change and secure future returns. Yet, rather than being market‐driven, it increasingly relies on data‐intensive forecasting models and scenarios that resemble economic planning. Drawing on case studies of sustainability‐linked bonds within the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), climate stress tests by central banks, a…
China as a laboratory to renegotiate globalization
Building on Ilias Alami's invitation to reconceptualize foreign investment screening mechanisms as state tools for renegotiating (post)globalization, this commentary mobilizes China's historical engagement with foreign capital, positioning it as a ‘laboratory’ for rethinking statecraft amid the transformations of global capitalism. By tracing the genealogy of selective regulatory practices – including the establishment of special economic zones –…
Welcome to the age of longevity capitalism
This essay coins and develops the concept of Longevity Capitalism, a biopolitical and financial regime in which both the condition of living longer and the pursuit of longevity are transformed into frontiers of accumulation. As financialisation extends into the domain of ageing, longevity – once a social and fiscal challenge – has been reframed as an investment opportunity. The essay traces a shift from collective welfare management to individual…
Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand
The climate crisis calls for a reassessment of infrastructure's role in the energy transition. This urgency has catalysed an expanding green finance paradigm, which is reshaping the roles of states and private actors through the creation of green infrastructural projects. This article examines Thailand's northeast province, an emerging renewable energy hub, to explore how Cold War‐era geopolitical and military infrastructures are being repurposed…
Interpellating Finance – a dramaturgical model for green bond pricing
Global financial governance is turning green. Attempting to tackle climate change, financial elites seem to swing confusingly between hesitant and action aimed at relieving the contradictions that led to the crisis, and opportunistic co-optation of critical discourse. Drawing on the work of Althusser, Laclau and Butler, we describe the historical emergence of this green financial apparatus and the related proliferation of green labels and signifi…
The sickle and the garlic chives
This essay explores the meaning that volatility assumes in the Chinese stock market context. Drawing on discussions from 'mom and pop' online forums, it argues investors operate in a relational position with the Chinese state regulators that both sustain and threaten their market activities. Chinese stock markets are known to be the most volatile in the world. To face the state's arbitrary intervention in the market, investors must constantly jug…
The Promethean Ant Forest
Ant Forest is a Chinese app that connects users' behaviours to an environmental protection scheme.Developed in 2016 by Ant Group's Alipay-an affiliate of Alibaba's gigantic mobile-payment platform-Ant Forest has gamified carbon footprint tracking, allowing users to participate in tree planting and conservation as they consume online.If you buy sustainable products, choose paperless options, take your bike instead of your car, and correctly manage…
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe
By examining the ‘post’ financial crisis scenario in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) the paper assesses the role of Western banks in the region and how their penetration and ‘resilience’ is influenced by their parent and subsidiary structure. While taking stock of the variegated post-socialist transformation in CEE, it employs a genealogical method to explore how the universal bank model and its current ‘bifurcation’ into parent and subsidiary bank …
A moral turn in finance
With the use of financial technologies to address social and environmental problems, the global finance industry now has a new proclaimed moral aim. While impact and sustainable and climate finance are promising new frontiers for the management of social and environmental public concerns, a closer scrutiny reveals a more complex picture than the industry’s surface narratives. Here, new forms of finance extraction legitimize the reproduction of ol…
Bridging “green” asymmetries through crises
The article examines the first Chinese green bond issued in Europe to explore how a green bond is created and how it can be issued across boundaries. Raising questions of “green” valuation at multiple scales, it follows the way the bond’s proceeds hit the ground in Portugal, refinancing wind farms previously built under a Feed in Tariff (FiT) regime. It shows how if on the one hand green bonds are designed as abstract and fungible instruments, th…
Cultural platform capitalism
This paper contributes to the ‘digital turn’ in geography and to conceptualizations of cognitive capitalism by focusing on how changing forms of cultural representation in the digital world constitute new forms of value extraction. It takes as a key case study the RealTech company Juwai; one of the largest transnational digital platforms connecting international estate agents and Chinese buyers. Positioning the digital platform as a site in which…
The precarious Chinese financial ecology of expertise
By describing features of Chinese financialisation through en masse stock market trading, the article concerns the development of a Chinese financial ecology of expertise. This indicates a new precarious knowledge regime in which the relationship between the state and the financial subjects it fosters is increasingly defined through financial terms. It argues that the Chinese financialisation should be investigated alongside the state's project d…
The Financial Crisis and a Crisis of Expertise
The paper investigates the distinctly Chinese intertwining of expertise and state & financial capital to enrich the current understanding of neoliberalism as a hegemonic governing rationale. Since the summer of 2015, China has been experiencing one of its most severe financial crises since the adoption of a ‘socialist market economy’ in 1978. However, globally circulating narratives have failed to look beyond a Western-centric corollary, rehashin…
The Financialization Rush
The article examines the distinctive features of Chinese financialization. It argues that in China "mass financialization" was strategically led by a state effort to compensate for the social outcomes that resulted when the communist model of collective work units (danwei) was dismantled subsequent to the opening economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping. Since the opening of the stock exchanges in Shenzhen (1990) and Shanghai (1992), a wave of …
Cultural platform capitalism
This paper contributes to the ‘digital turn’ in geography and to conceptualizations of cognitive capitalism by focusing on how changing forms of cultural representation in the digital world constitute new forms of value extraction. It takes as a key case study the RealTech company Juwai; one of the largest transnational digital platforms connecting international estate agents and Chinese buyers. Positioning the digital platform as a site in which…
The Financialization Rush
The article examines the distinctive features of Chinese financialization. It argues that in China "mass financialization" was strategically led by a state effort to compensate for the social outcomes that resulted when the communist model of collective work units (danwei) was dismantled subsequent to the opening economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping. Since the opening of the stock exchanges in Shenzhen (1990) and Shanghai (1992), a wave of …
Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand
The climate crisis calls for a reassessment of infrastructure's role in the energy transition. This urgency has catalysed an expanding green finance paradigm, which is reshaping the roles of states and private actors through the creation of green infrastructural projects. This article examines Thailand's northeast province, an emerging renewable energy hub, to explore how Cold War‐era geopolitical and military infrastructures are being repurposed…
Interpellating Finance – a dramaturgical model for green bond pricing
Global financial governance is turning green. Attempting to tackle climate change, financial elites seem to swing confusingly between hesitant and action aimed at relieving the contradictions that led to the crisis, and opportunistic co-optation of critical discourse. Drawing on the work of Althusser, Laclau and Butler, we describe the historical emergence of this green financial apparatus and the related proliferation of green labels and signifi…
The sickle and the garlic chives
This essay explores the meaning that volatility assumes in the Chinese stock market context. Drawing on discussions from 'mom and pop' online forums, it argues investors operate in a relational position with the Chinese state regulators that both sustain and threaten their market activities. Chinese stock markets are known to be the most volatile in the world. To face the state's arbitrary intervention in the market, investors must constantly jug…
The Financial Crisis and a Crisis of Expertise
The paper investigates the distinctly Chinese intertwining of expertise and state & financial capital to enrich the current understanding of neoliberalism as a hegemonic governing rationale. Since the summer of 2015, China has been experiencing one of its most severe financial crises since the adoption of a ‘socialist market economy’ in 1978. However, globally circulating narratives have failed to look beyond a Western-centric corollary, rehashin…
Welcome to the age of longevity capitalism
This essay coins and develops the concept of Longevity Capitalism, a biopolitical and financial regime in which both the condition of living longer and the pursuit of longevity are transformed into frontiers of accumulation. As financialisation extends into the domain of ageing, longevity – once a social and fiscal challenge – has been reframed as an investment opportunity. The essay traces a shift from collective welfare management to individual…
The Financialization Rush
The article examines the distinctive features of Chinese financialization. It argues that in China "mass financialization" was strategically led by a state effort to compensate for the social outcomes that resulted when the communist model of collective work units (danwei) was dismantled subsequent to the opening economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping. Since the opening of the stock exchanges in Shenzhen (1990) and Shanghai (1992), a wave of …
The Financial Crisis and a Crisis of Expertise
The paper investigates the distinctly Chinese intertwining of expertise and state & financial capital to enrich the current understanding of neoliberalism as a hegemonic governing rationale. Since the summer of 2015, China has been experiencing one of its most severe financial crises since the adoption of a ‘socialist market economy’ in 1978. However, globally circulating narratives have failed to look beyond a Western-centric corollary, rehashin…
Cultural platform capitalism
This paper contributes to the ‘digital turn’ in geography and to conceptualizations of cognitive capitalism by focusing on how changing forms of cultural representation in the digital world constitute new forms of value extraction. It takes as a key case study the RealTech company Juwai; one of the largest transnational digital platforms connecting international estate agents and Chinese buyers. Positioning the digital platform as a site in which…
The precarious Chinese financial ecology of expertise
By describing features of Chinese financialisation through en masse stock market trading, the article concerns the development of a Chinese financial ecology of expertise. This indicates a new precarious knowledge regime in which the relationship between the state and the financial subjects it fosters is increasingly defined through financial terms. It argues that the Chinese financialisation should be investigated alongside the state's project d…
The Promethean Ant Forest
Ant Forest is a Chinese app that connects users' behaviours to an environmental protection scheme.Developed in 2016 by Ant Group's Alipay-an affiliate of Alibaba's gigantic mobile-payment platform-Ant Forest has gamified carbon footprint tracking, allowing users to participate in tree planting and conservation as they consume online.If you buy sustainable products, choose paperless options, take your bike instead of your car, and correctly manage…
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe
By examining the ‘post’ financial crisis scenario in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) the paper assesses the role of Western banks in the region and how their penetration and ‘resilience’ is influenced by their parent and subsidiary structure. While taking stock of the variegated post-socialist transformation in CEE, it employs a genealogical method to explore how the universal bank model and its current ‘bifurcation’ into parent and subsidiary bank …
A moral turn in finance
With the use of financial technologies to address social and environmental problems, the global finance industry now has a new proclaimed moral aim. While impact and sustainable and climate finance are promising new frontiers for the management of social and environmental public concerns, a closer scrutiny reveals a more complex picture than the industry’s surface narratives. Here, new forms of finance extraction legitimize the reproduction of ol…
Bridging “green” asymmetries through crises
The article examines the first Chinese green bond issued in Europe to explore how a green bond is created and how it can be issued across boundaries. Raising questions of “green” valuation at multiple scales, it follows the way the bond’s proceeds hit the ground in Portugal, refinancing wind farms previously built under a Feed in Tariff (FiT) regime. It shows how if on the one hand green bonds are designed as abstract and fungible instruments, th…
Interpellating Finance – a dramaturgical model for green bond pricing
Global financial governance is turning green. Attempting to tackle climate change, financial elites seem to swing confusingly between hesitant and action aimed at relieving the contradictions that led to the crisis, and opportunistic co-optation of critical discourse. Drawing on the work of Althusser, Laclau and Butler, we describe the historical emergence of this green financial apparatus and the related proliferation of green labels and signifi…
The sickle and the garlic chives
This essay explores the meaning that volatility assumes in the Chinese stock market context. Drawing on discussions from 'mom and pop' online forums, it argues investors operate in a relational position with the Chinese state regulators that both sustain and threaten their market activities. Chinese stock markets are known to be the most volatile in the world. To face the state's arbitrary intervention in the market, investors must constantly jug…
Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand
The climate crisis calls for a reassessment of infrastructure's role in the energy transition. This urgency has catalysed an expanding green finance paradigm, which is reshaping the roles of states and private actors through the creation of green infrastructural projects. This article examines Thailand's northeast province, an emerging renewable energy hub, to explore how Cold War‐era geopolitical and military infrastructures are being repurposed…
China as a laboratory to renegotiate globalization
Building on Ilias Alami's invitation to reconceptualize foreign investment screening mechanisms as state tools for renegotiating (post)globalization, this commentary mobilizes China's historical engagement with foreign capital, positioning it as a ‘laboratory’ for rethinking statecraft amid the transformations of global capitalism. By tracing the genealogy of selective regulatory practices – including the establishment of special economic zones –…
Welcome to the age of longevity capitalism
This essay coins and develops the concept of Longevity Capitalism, a biopolitical and financial regime in which both the condition of living longer and the pursuit of longevity are transformed into frontiers of accumulation. As financialisation extends into the domain of ageing, longevity – once a social and fiscal challenge – has been reframed as an investment opportunity. The essay traces a shift from collective welfare management to individual…
Antinomies of Green Fintech
This article examines the emergence of “green fintech,” a diverse subset of new financial technologies with expressly environmental aims. We suggest that an analysis of “green fintech” offers us a useful lens on the contradictions of green finance more generally. The paper looks at a range of examples, spanning processes of AI‐enabled investment screening, tokenization, and gamification, and draws recent debates about the Marxian category of “fic…
Green Finance and the Hidden Hand of Algorithmic Planning
Green finance is widely hailed as the solution to environmental and capitalist crises, promising to address climate change and secure future returns. Yet, rather than being market‐driven, it increasingly relies on data‐intensive forecasting models and scenarios that resemble economic planning. Drawing on case studies of sustainability‐linked bonds within the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), climate stress tests by central banks, a…
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