Joscha Wullweber
Biographic Data
| ID | 176464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joscha Wullweber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joscha |
| FAMILY NAME | Wullweber |
| SIGNATURE | WULLWEBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Witten/Herdecke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1928-1933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance
Transitions require substantial investment in new technologies and infrastructures. • Moreover, changes to the rules of the finance system itself are required. • We investigate the strategies civil society actors use to affect finance transitions. • Civil society activity has grown in sustainable finance but is low compared to other fields. • Civil society activities so far had limited impact in affecting sustainable finance legislation and pract…
Response to Manuela Moschella’s Review of Central Bank Capitalism: Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good
Legitimising green monetary policies: Market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability
Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
Since the Paris Agreement, interest in decarbonization and sustainable finance has grown rapidly. Within the prevalent derisking regime, investment for decarbonization must come predominantly from the private sector. However, growth in 'sustainable finance' assets is not necessarily causing more sustainability-advancing productive investment to drive the green transition. We thus argue that sustainable finance is not exclusively about investing o…
The ecor as global special purpose money: Towards a Green International Monetary System to Finance Sustainable and Just Transformation
Countries from the Global South face significant challenges to finance sustainable and just transformation. These challenges primarily stem from the hierarchical character of the current international monetary system, which requires Global South countries to obtain US dollars to finance imports of green goods, services, and technologies that they cannot (yet) produce, but require for the sustainable transformation. To overcome this hurdle, we pro…
Democracy, economic inequality, and mending
The article argues that while the book brilliantly illustrates the many ways of democratic mending, there is an essential blind spot that runs through the entire book: economic inequality. Democratic processes seem strangely disconnected from the conditions under which people live. However, there can be no democratic equality and no just democracy as long as living conditions in society and among societies remain highly unequal. Accordingly, to u…
The Politics of Shadow Money: Security Structures, Money Creation and Unconventional Central Banking
For the first time in the history of central banks, the Federal Reserve has been pursuing monetary policies which allow shadow banks to access its reserves. The paper examines these policies in an analysis based on the concept of security structure. The aim is to facilitate a better understanding of complex institutional arrangements which convert credit claims into money or enable them to simulate the money-form. As the financial crisis reached …
Embedded finance: The Shadow Banking System, Sovereign Power, and a New State-Market Hybridity
With the rise of the shadow banking system, a new form of state–market hybridity has emerged, challenging existing monetary approaches to financial stability. A stable financial system today has essentially come to depend on a stable shadow banking system. Central banks are in the process of adapting to this new development. To secure the logic of laissez-faire market liberalism, the sovereign must resort to unprecedented measures and radically i…
Money, State, Hegemony: A Political Ontology of Money
This article develops a political understanding of the money-form, its relation to value, to society, and to the state. It argues that the value of assets is based on societal relations. These value relations are expressed in a general measure of value – money. Money serves as the equivalent for all asset values. This general equivalent is conceptualized as a master signifier. Based on Laclau’s political theory and theories of International Polit…
Constructing Hegemony in Global Politics. A Discourse–Theoretical Approach to Policy Analysis
The article proposes a discourse–theoretical approach to policy analysis that explores how political relations are changed through and within a strategic and interest-led process with a focus on conflictual struggles that attempt to establish, change, or consolidate specific interests and meanings as universalities. It suggests a conceptualization of hegemonic projects and discusses their relation to the common good. After elaborating on the term…
A Grave Case of Myopia? Die globale Finanzmarktkrise und die Internationale Politische Ökonomie
Performative global finance: Bridging micro and macro approaches with a stratified perspective
Theories of performativity can enhance the study of global finance. Taking everyday financial practices seriously, they emphasise the potentially structuring effects and disciplinary nature of finance, and foreground the performative role of economics, financial models, and formulas. It has remained largely overlooked to date that the literature on the performativity of finance can be divided into two distinct approaches. ‘Microperformativity’ is…
Diskurs und Hegemonie: Gesellschaftskritische Perspektiven
Global politics and empty signifiers: The political construction of high technology
This article argues for the usefulness of the concept of the empty signifier for the analysis of international policy processes. First, it emphasizes the importance of considering references to general public interest in global politics and the way such interest is constructed. Second, it opens up the possibility of examining political strategies in the process of developing policy programs. Third, it provides a foil for scrutinizing the interpla…
The fragility of things: Self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, and democratic activism, by William E. Connolly
Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie
Konturen eines politischen Analyserahmens: Hegemonie, Diskurs und Antagonismus
Inhalt
Einleitung: Poststrukturalistische Hegemonie-theorien als Gesellschaftskritik
Autorinnen und Autoren
Constructing Hegemony in Global Politics. A Discourse–Theoretical Approach to Policy Analysis
The article proposes a discourse–theoretical approach to policy analysis that explores how political relations are changed through and within a strategic and interest-led process with a focus on conflictual struggles that attempt to establish, change, or consolidate specific interests and meanings as universalities. It suggests a conceptualization of hegemonic projects and discusses their relation to the common good. After elaborating on the term…
Legitimising green monetary policies: Market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability
Money, State, Hegemony: A Political Ontology of Money
This article develops a political understanding of the money-form, its relation to value, to society, and to the state. It argues that the value of assets is based on societal relations. These value relations are expressed in a general measure of value – money. Money serves as the equivalent for all asset values. This general equivalent is conceptualized as a master signifier. Based on Laclau’s political theory and theories of International Polit…
The Politics of Shadow Money: Security Structures, Money Creation and Unconventional Central Banking
For the first time in the history of central banks, the Federal Reserve has been pursuing monetary policies which allow shadow banks to access its reserves. The paper examines these policies in an analysis based on the concept of security structure. The aim is to facilitate a better understanding of complex institutional arrangements which convert credit claims into money or enable them to simulate the money-form. As the financial crisis reached …
Performative global finance: Bridging micro and macro approaches with a stratified perspective
Theories of performativity can enhance the study of global finance. Taking everyday financial practices seriously, they emphasise the potentially structuring effects and disciplinary nature of finance, and foreground the performative role of economics, financial models, and formulas. It has remained largely overlooked to date that the literature on the performativity of finance can be divided into two distinct approaches. ‘Microperformativity’ is…
Embedded finance: The Shadow Banking System, Sovereign Power, and a New State-Market Hybridity
With the rise of the shadow banking system, a new form of state–market hybridity has emerged, challenging existing monetary approaches to financial stability. A stable financial system today has essentially come to depend on a stable shadow banking system. Central banks are in the process of adapting to this new development. To secure the logic of laissez-faire market liberalism, the sovereign must resort to unprecedented measures and radically i…
Global politics and empty signifiers: The political construction of high technology
This article argues for the usefulness of the concept of the empty signifier for the analysis of international policy processes. First, it emphasizes the importance of considering references to general public interest in global politics and the way such interest is constructed. Second, it opens up the possibility of examining political strategies in the process of developing policy programs. Third, it provides a foil for scrutinizing the interpla…
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good
Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
Since the Paris Agreement, interest in decarbonization and sustainable finance has grown rapidly. Within the prevalent derisking regime, investment for decarbonization must come predominantly from the private sector. However, growth in 'sustainable finance' assets is not necessarily causing more sustainability-advancing productive investment to drive the green transition. We thus argue that sustainable finance is not exclusively about investing o…
The ecor as global special purpose money: Towards a Green International Monetary System to Finance Sustainable and Just Transformation
Countries from the Global South face significant challenges to finance sustainable and just transformation. These challenges primarily stem from the hierarchical character of the current international monetary system, which requires Global South countries to obtain US dollars to finance imports of green goods, services, and technologies that they cannot (yet) produce, but require for the sustainable transformation. To overcome this hurdle, we pro…
Konturen eines politischen Analyserahmens: Hegemonie, Diskurs und Antagonismus
Inhalt
Einleitung: Poststrukturalistische Hegemonie-theorien als Gesellschaftskritik
Autorinnen und Autoren
Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie
Diskurs und Hegemonie: Gesellschaftskritische Perspektiven
Global politics and empty signifiers: The political construction of high technology
This article argues for the usefulness of the concept of the empty signifier for the analysis of international policy processes. First, it emphasizes the importance of considering references to general public interest in global politics and the way such interest is constructed. Second, it opens up the possibility of examining political strategies in the process of developing policy programs. Third, it provides a foil for scrutinizing the interpla…
The fragility of things: Self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, and democratic activism, by William E. Connolly
Performative global finance: Bridging micro and macro approaches with a stratified perspective
Theories of performativity can enhance the study of global finance. Taking everyday financial practices seriously, they emphasise the potentially structuring effects and disciplinary nature of finance, and foreground the performative role of economics, financial models, and formulas. It has remained largely overlooked to date that the literature on the performativity of finance can be divided into two distinct approaches. ‘Microperformativity’ is…
A Grave Case of Myopia? Die globale Finanzmarktkrise und die Internationale Politische Ökonomie
Constructing Hegemony in Global Politics. A Discourse–Theoretical Approach to Policy Analysis
The article proposes a discourse–theoretical approach to policy analysis that explores how political relations are changed through and within a strategic and interest-led process with a focus on conflictual struggles that attempt to establish, change, or consolidate specific interests and meanings as universalities. It suggests a conceptualization of hegemonic projects and discusses their relation to the common good. After elaborating on the term…
Money, State, Hegemony: A Political Ontology of Money
This article develops a political understanding of the money-form, its relation to value, to society, and to the state. It argues that the value of assets is based on societal relations. These value relations are expressed in a general measure of value – money. Money serves as the equivalent for all asset values. This general equivalent is conceptualized as a master signifier. Based on Laclau’s political theory and theories of International Polit…
The Politics of Shadow Money: Security Structures, Money Creation and Unconventional Central Banking
For the first time in the history of central banks, the Federal Reserve has been pursuing monetary policies which allow shadow banks to access its reserves. The paper examines these policies in an analysis based on the concept of security structure. The aim is to facilitate a better understanding of complex institutional arrangements which convert credit claims into money or enable them to simulate the money-form. As the financial crisis reached …
Embedded finance: The Shadow Banking System, Sovereign Power, and a New State-Market Hybridity
With the rise of the shadow banking system, a new form of state–market hybridity has emerged, challenging existing monetary approaches to financial stability. A stable financial system today has essentially come to depend on a stable shadow banking system. Central banks are in the process of adapting to this new development. To secure the logic of laissez-faire market liberalism, the sovereign must resort to unprecedented measures and radically i…
Democracy, economic inequality, and mending
The article argues that while the book brilliantly illustrates the many ways of democratic mending, there is an essential blind spot that runs through the entire book: economic inequality. Democratic processes seem strangely disconnected from the conditions under which people live. However, there can be no democratic equality and no just democracy as long as living conditions in society and among societies remain highly unequal. Accordingly, to u…
The ecor as global special purpose money: Towards a Green International Monetary System to Finance Sustainable and Just Transformation
Countries from the Global South face significant challenges to finance sustainable and just transformation. These challenges primarily stem from the hierarchical character of the current international monetary system, which requires Global South countries to obtain US dollars to finance imports of green goods, services, and technologies that they cannot (yet) produce, but require for the sustainable transformation. To overcome this hurdle, we pro…
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good
Legitimising green monetary policies: Market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability
Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
Since the Paris Agreement, interest in decarbonization and sustainable finance has grown rapidly. Within the prevalent derisking regime, investment for decarbonization must come predominantly from the private sector. However, growth in 'sustainable finance' assets is not necessarily causing more sustainability-advancing productive investment to drive the green transition. We thus argue that sustainable finance is not exclusively about investing o…
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance
Transitions require substantial investment in new technologies and infrastructures. • Moreover, changes to the rules of the finance system itself are required. • We investigate the strategies civil society actors use to affect finance transitions. • Civil society activity has grown in sustainable finance but is low compared to other fields. • Civil society activities so far had limited impact in affecting sustainable finance legislation and pract…
Response to Manuela Moschella’s Review of Central Bank Capitalism: Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis
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