Helen Whiteside
Biographic Data
| ID | 195302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Whiteside |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Whiteside |
| SIGNATURE | WHITESIDE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6089-7310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Reading Canada Lands Company against the archive
Canada Lands Company is arguably the least known yet most consequential actor at the center of Canadian public land redevelopment, privatization, and commercialization. A state owned enterprise incorporated in 1956 that hit the headlines in 2023 when tasked with addressing a national housing supply shortage by selling surplus government land, Canada Lands led a lively existence across what is often framed as dormant years for the Company. Uncover…
Financialization and local statecraft: Truth and consequences
Dire warnings abound of English local government insolvency through reckless decision-making. Andy Pike’s Financialization and Local Statecraft offers readers a more nuanced account of varied local statecrafters navigating fiscal-finance dilemmas, acknowledging both agency and constraints. Pike especially takes issue with the popular account of local officials as ‘councillors at the casino’. Responding to the call for historicization, this review…
Working with/in crises: More questions than answers
This essay is the outcome of a 2025 AAG panel on crises that raised issues such as: is crisis the norm, is crisis a useful analytical frame and are we living through exceptional times? Seeking to avoid prognostication, my response provides some answers while provoking additional questions. Political economy insights are summarized for their different views on analyzing crises (from polycrisis and longwave approaches to monocausal materialism) and…
Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory
Several Coast Salish First Nations are actively involved in land reclamation and redevelopment in the greater Vancouver region (Canada). Through their for-profit development corporations, entities like Nch'ḵay̕ Development Corporation (Squamish Nation) and the joint-venture Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Development Corporation have become key players in the lucrative Vancouver property market in partnership with other public and private l…
The City Before Property
Democratizing the Extended State: Public Enterprise Constraints and Capacities
This article assesses the constraints and capacities for Canadian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to enhance economic democracy. Constraints include the democratic deficit produced by the commercialization of SOEs, which shifted away from historically privileging the social outcomes of public enterprise, together with the construction of a global governance architecture with binding and enforceable trade agreements that constrain democratic decisi…
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures
Structured around the questions posed by Su and Lim's research agenda, this commentary looks at the why of state-led venture capital (SVC) through state theory, the how of SVC through changes in the Business Development Bank of Canada, and the what of SVC through dynamics of capitalist public ownership
Capitalist political economy and the political economy of capitalisms: 2022 Rik Davidson/ Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
In 2022, Heather Whiteside of the University of Waterloo was recognized with the Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy Book Prize for her book Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories (Routledge, 2020). This article is an edited version of the book prize talk that she delivered at the Canadian Political Science Association's 2023 Annual Meeting, held at York University in Toronto. Professor Whiteside summarizes the book briefly and…
Analytical eclecticism for vigor and rigor
In this Exchanges piece, I comment on centripetal and centrifugal tendencies across social science disciplines with an eye to the possibilities and pitfalls of analytical eclecticism in bridging within-field impasse and generating cross-disciplinary dialogue germane to economic geography
Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers to be published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the first of these introductory commentaries, we highlight some of the potentially productive ambiguities that accompany the new state capitalism rubric.…
State capitalism as Lazarus meets Loch Ness: Insights from the Asiatic mode of production
This paper comments on the unexamined bifurcation of new state capitalism studies into two camps: changes in liberal capitalism and analyses of illiberal state forms. I characterize these aspects as Lazarus meets Loch Ness: Lazarus-like when focused on the ever-reborn market interventions of the liberal capitalist state, and Loch Ness-like in its rediscovery of the resurfaced 'other
Beyond death and taxes: Fiscal studies and the fiscal state
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in fiscal studies, from the new fiscal sociology to fiscal geographies and beyond, with roots in the 20th century theories of Schumpeter (liberal) and O'Connor (Marxian). The notion of a 'tax state' remains particularly germane, and indeed fiscal studies have all but narrowed to assessments of the relations and implications of taxation. This paper calls for a meaningful engagemen…
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the second of these introductory commentaries, we explore the consequences of embracing relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development, together with …
Reluctant state capitalism: Antipathy, accommodation and hybridity in Irish telecommunications
The state capitalism literature emphasizes the new roles played by states in global politics and domestic economies through heightened intervention and ownership of key resources and sectors. In Ireland, we instead find a reluctant state capitalism evinced by antipathy towards state ownership, the accommodation of private sector failures and embrace of hybrid governance. Rather than something new and unprecedented, the Irish state has been a long…
Making space for the new state capitalism, part III: Thinking conjuncturally
The theme issue "Making Space for the New State Capitalism" brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series papers published in three installments, each accompanied with an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the third of these introductory commentaries, we explore the challenges and opportunities associated with thinking conjuncturally, followed by a final collectio…
State Capitalism is Capitalism in Canada
The long arc of state capitalism in Canada indicates that state capitalism is capitalism, and that liberal, particularly neoliberal, discourse of distinct private markets underpinned by public sector laissez-faire mentality is largely a fiction. Crosscutting historical and contemporary trends reveal that state-owned enterprises have both supported capitalist development and reflected changes within the capitalist system; thus the neoliberal era m…
Company colonies and historical layering: Understanding the Virginia, Somers Isles, and Hudson’s Bay Companies
This paper develops comparative case studies of the Virginia, Somers Isles, and Hudson’s Bay Companies’ colonies. The analysis uncovers significant historical layering through multifaceted and dynamic modes of production, class relations, corporate governance forms, land ownership schemes, and legal arrangements. Company colonies emerged as hybrid combinations of partially feudal company-owned plantations using white indentured servitude together…
Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country
State and collective ownership: Thwarting and enabling financialization
In The Long Shadow of the State: Financializing the Chinese City, Fulong Wu uncovers the salience of financial imperatives where otherwise unexpected. Querying whether there is a discernable financial turn in Chinese urban governance akin to that of Western capitalism, the “partial” financialization of Chinese cities is said to turn on its distinctive “state-led” nature. Inspired by Wu’s method of analysis, this discussion paper offers an elabora…
Reconciling with capitalism: Selling Crown land to settle with First Nations
This article examines the connection between privatization and reconciliation in Canada, witnessed through the disposal of federal and provincial land in Vancouver. The Jericho Lands were sold to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‐Waututh Development Corporation (MST) in joint partnership with the federal Crown corporation Canada Lands Company (CLC). This deal was partially funded through Crown‐provided accommodation payments seeking to address u…
Debt and Austerity: Implications of the Financial Crisis
Just when we thought we had a handle on the global financial crisis (GFC)—at least as academic analyses and economic practicalities go—a sudden, largely unexpected shock, the likes of which had not
Privatizing Canadian government land and real estate: Railroads, reconciliation, and rip-offs
Is, ought and being careful what you wish for
This brief commentary on Henry Wai-chung Yeung’s “Rethinking Mechanism and Process in the Geographical Analysis of Uneven Development” makes three points. First, the commentary supports the article’s assertions that ‘analytical rigor’ is compromised when process and mechanism are conflated, that causal mechanisms are under- theorized in much economic geography, and that a latent realist ontology often lurks beneath interpretive and process-based …
Public-private partnerships: Market development through management reform
The transformation of public infrastructure and services into vehicles of profit-making through privately financed and operated partnerships (PPPs) has successfully weathered high profile project failures, changes in government, scathing audits, public resistance, financial crises, fiscal austerity, and found a home around the world despite vastly different legal, cultural, and institutional contexts. Public procurement and traditional budgeting …
The new enclosure: The appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain
Published in December 2018, only a few months before this review, Christophers’s The New Enclosure has already garnered praise in The Guardian, The Financial Times, and the London Review of Books
Financializing Detroit
Taking as its focus the not-so-special case of Detroit, which recently experienced the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, this article explores the financialization of American urban governance in both conceptual and concrete terms. The financially mediated restructuring of Detroit, through the imposition of emergency management by the state of Michigan and subsequently through the federal bankruptcy code, has been portrayed as an extrem…
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the second of these introductory commentaries, we explore the consequences of embracing relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development, together with …
The new enclosure: The appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain
Published in December 2018, only a few months before this review, Christophers’s The New Enclosure has already garnered praise in The Guardian, The Financial Times, and the London Review of Books
Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers to be published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the first of these introductory commentaries, we highlight some of the potentially productive ambiguities that accompany the new state capitalism rubric.…
The state's estate: Devaluing and revaluing 'surplus' public land in Canada
Since the mid-1990s, Canadian public real property (land, buildings, and equipment) has been subject to regular scrutiny through bureaucratic procedures aimed at ridding the state's estate of all 'surplus' properties. Surplus is transferred to Canada Lands Company, a state owned enterprise charged with privatizing public land. Bureaucratic devaluation thus allows for subsequent revaluation through multiple forms of state-sponsored remediation: th…
Public-private partnerships: Market development through management reform
The transformation of public infrastructure and services into vehicles of profit-making through privately financed and operated partnerships (PPPs) has successfully weathered high profile project failures, changes in government, scathing audits, public resistance, financial crises, fiscal austerity, and found a home around the world despite vastly different legal, cultural, and institutional contexts. Public procurement and traditional budgeting …
State and collective ownership: Thwarting and enabling financialization
In The Long Shadow of the State: Financializing the Chinese City, Fulong Wu uncovers the salience of financial imperatives where otherwise unexpected. Querying whether there is a discernable financial turn in Chinese urban governance akin to that of Western capitalism, the “partial” financialization of Chinese cities is said to turn on its distinctive “state-led” nature. Inspired by Wu’s method of analysis, this discussion paper offers an elabora…
Canada’s Health Care “Crisis”: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix
Heather Whiteside's article, Health Care Crisis: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix, argues for the need to understand the development and transformation of the Canadian healthcare system as part of a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation strategies. Building upon the work of David Harvey, Whiteside critically interrogates how the privatization of public assets and the contracting out of essential services fits into a broa…
The Canada Infrastructure Bank: Private finance as poor alternative
This paper analyzes the incipient Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), and argues that it offers, at best, a deceptive alternative to long-standing practices of austerity and privatization. The CIB aims to institutionalize the public–private partnership (P3) model and private finance schemes, reconfiguring public infrastructure as “commercializable” projects, and altering government decisionmaking and its orientation towards public works. Suggestion…
Public works: Better, faster, cheaper infrastructure
Are public-private partnerships (P3s) better, faster, and cheaper, as their proponents suggest? If P3s do not deliver on those promises, how might we explain their perennial appeal? Mutation and malleability have been part of the P3 story since the very beginning. This includes procurement arguments offered in favour of P3s, developments in private finance, and the leading forms of project development. Shapeshifting has, in turn, reconfigured the…
Austerity as epiphenomenon? Public assets before and beyond 2008
To what extent did the resurgence of austerity in the post-2008 context reverse or indelibly alter established directions and thinking in public sector economic management? Historicising recent bouts of austerity in Ireland, Canada, Spain and Denmark, this article concludes that the implications of austerity are diverse but the direction is uniform: despite clear varieties, strikingly similar trajectories emerge. Given that patterns of public ass…
Crises of Capital and the Logic of Dis Possession and Repossession
Making space for the new state capitalism, part III: Thinking conjuncturally
The theme issue "Making Space for the New State Capitalism" brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series papers published in three installments, each accompanied with an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the third of these introductory commentaries, we explore the challenges and opportunities associated with thinking conjuncturally, followed by a final collectio…
Advanced perspectives on financialised urban infrastructures
This Special Issue attempts to clarify how urban infrastructure is being funded, financed and governed. In this commentary, I seek to engage the topic of the Special Issue as a whole – infrastructure financialisation and its governance – albeit through examples provided by individual article contributions. It is a collection emphasising the tangled interaction between public and private, urging a view of financialisation beyond the binary states …
Unhealthy policy: The political economy of Canadian public-private partnership hospitals
Public–private partnerships (P3s) with the for-profit private sector are increasingly used in Canada to deliver public infrastructure and support services within the health care sector (e.g., hospitals, clinics, community health centres). This paper examines the emergence and legacy of P3s in the Canadian health care sector, classifying them as a form of neoliberal accumulation by dispossession and discussing their inability to live up to propone…
Company colonies and historical layering: Understanding the Virginia, Somers Isles, and Hudson’s Bay Companies
This paper develops comparative case studies of the Virginia, Somers Isles, and Hudson’s Bay Companies’ colonies. The analysis uncovers significant historical layering through multifaceted and dynamic modes of production, class relations, corporate governance forms, land ownership schemes, and legal arrangements. Company colonies emerged as hybrid combinations of partially feudal company-owned plantations using white indentured servitude together…
Reconciling with capitalism: Selling Crown land to settle with First Nations
This article examines the connection between privatization and reconciliation in Canada, witnessed through the disposal of federal and provincial land in Vancouver. The Jericho Lands were sold to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‐Waututh Development Corporation (MST) in joint partnership with the federal Crown corporation Canada Lands Company (CLC). This deal was partially funded through Crown‐provided accommodation payments seeking to address u…
Capitalist political economy and the political economy of capitalisms: 2022 Rik Davidson/ Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
In 2022, Heather Whiteside of the University of Waterloo was recognized with the Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy Book Prize for her book Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories (Routledge, 2020). This article is an edited version of the book prize talk that she delivered at the Canadian Political Science Association's 2023 Annual Meeting, held at York University in Toronto. Professor Whiteside summarizes the book briefly and…
Beyond death and taxes: Fiscal studies and the fiscal state
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in fiscal studies, from the new fiscal sociology to fiscal geographies and beyond, with roots in the 20th century theories of Schumpeter (liberal) and O'Connor (Marxian). The notion of a 'tax state' remains particularly germane, and indeed fiscal studies have all but narrowed to assessments of the relations and implications of taxation. This paper calls for a meaningful engagemen…
Reluctant state capitalism: Antipathy, accommodation and hybridity in Irish telecommunications
The state capitalism literature emphasizes the new roles played by states in global politics and domestic economies through heightened intervention and ownership of key resources and sectors. In Ireland, we instead find a reluctant state capitalism evinced by antipathy towards state ownership, the accommodation of private sector failures and embrace of hybrid governance. Rather than something new and unprecedented, the Irish state has been a long…
Privatizing Canadian government land and real estate: Railroads, reconciliation, and rip-offs
Is, ought and being careful what you wish for
This brief commentary on Henry Wai-chung Yeung’s “Rethinking Mechanism and Process in the Geographical Analysis of Uneven Development” makes three points. First, the commentary supports the article’s assertions that ‘analytical rigor’ is compromised when process and mechanism are conflated, that causal mechanisms are under- theorized in much economic geography, and that a latent realist ontology often lurks beneath interpretive and process-based …
Democratizing the Extended State: Public Enterprise Constraints and Capacities
This article assesses the constraints and capacities for Canadian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to enhance economic democracy. Constraints include the democratic deficit produced by the commercialization of SOEs, which shifted away from historically privileging the social outcomes of public enterprise, together with the construction of a global governance architecture with binding and enforceable trade agreements that constrain democratic decisi…
Foreign in a domestic sense: Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and paradoxes in critical urban studies
The 2017 Puerto Rican debt crisis is as instructive as it is sad, reflective of the familiar pressures of late modern capitalism (namely neoliberalisation, financialisation, crisis, and austerity) as well as its own unique dynamics percolating through four hundred years of colonialism and a century of legal subjugation to Washington, DC. Neither one-off explanations of fiscal crisis nor casual conflation with other cases suffice to adequately acc…
Canada’s Health Care “Crisis”: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix
Heather Whiteside's article, Health Care Crisis: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix, argues for the need to understand the development and transformation of the Canadian healthcare system as part of a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation strategies. Building upon the work of David Harvey, Whiteside critically interrogates how the privatization of public assets and the contracting out of essential services fits into a broa…
Unhealthy policy: The political economy of Canadian public-private partnership hospitals
Public–private partnerships (P3s) with the for-profit private sector are increasingly used in Canada to deliver public infrastructure and support services within the health care sector (e.g., hospitals, clinics, community health centres). This paper examines the emergence and legacy of P3s in the Canadian health care sector, classifying them as a form of neoliberal accumulation by dispossession and discussing their inability to live up to propone…
Crises of Capital and the Logic of Dis Possession and Repossession
Financializing Detroit
Taking as its focus the not-so-special case of Detroit, which recently experienced the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, this article explores the financialization of American urban governance in both conceptual and concrete terms. The financially mediated restructuring of Detroit, through the imposition of emergency management by the state of Michigan and subsequently through the federal bankruptcy code, has been portrayed as an extrem…
The Canada Infrastructure Bank: Private finance as poor alternative
This paper analyzes the incipient Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), and argues that it offers, at best, a deceptive alternative to long-standing practices of austerity and privatization. The CIB aims to institutionalize the public–private partnership (P3) model and private finance schemes, reconfiguring public infrastructure as “commercializable” projects, and altering government decisionmaking and its orientation towards public works. Suggestion…
Austerity as epiphenomenon? Public assets before and beyond 2008
To what extent did the resurgence of austerity in the post-2008 context reverse or indelibly alter established directions and thinking in public sector economic management? Historicising recent bouts of austerity in Ireland, Canada, Spain and Denmark, this article concludes that the implications of austerity are diverse but the direction is uniform: despite clear varieties, strikingly similar trajectories emerge. Given that patterns of public ass…
Public works: Better, faster, cheaper infrastructure
Are public-private partnerships (P3s) better, faster, and cheaper, as their proponents suggest? If P3s do not deliver on those promises, how might we explain their perennial appeal? Mutation and malleability have been part of the P3 story since the very beginning. This includes procurement arguments offered in favour of P3s, developments in private finance, and the leading forms of project development. Shapeshifting has, in turn, reconfigured the…
Exploring Social (Non-working) Behavior in Guide Dogs from the Perspective of Guide Dog Owners
The guide dog partnership begins at the point of matching, when careful assessment of a trained guide dog and an understanding of the functional needs and expectations of the prospective owner are considered alongside each other. Guide Dogs UK invest much time and resources to the process of matching a client with a dog in order to fulfil client expectations and create a lasting partnership. This study explores: (1) the meaning and importance of …
Is, ought and being careful what you wish for
This brief commentary on Henry Wai-chung Yeung’s “Rethinking Mechanism and Process in the Geographical Analysis of Uneven Development” makes three points. First, the commentary supports the article’s assertions that ‘analytical rigor’ is compromised when process and mechanism are conflated, that causal mechanisms are under- theorized in much economic geography, and that a latent realist ontology often lurks beneath interpretive and process-based …
Public-private partnerships: Market development through management reform
The transformation of public infrastructure and services into vehicles of profit-making through privately financed and operated partnerships (PPPs) has successfully weathered high profile project failures, changes in government, scathing audits, public resistance, financial crises, fiscal austerity, and found a home around the world despite vastly different legal, cultural, and institutional contexts. Public procurement and traditional budgeting …
The new enclosure: The appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain
Published in December 2018, only a few months before this review, Christophers’s The New Enclosure has already garnered praise in The Guardian, The Financial Times, and the London Review of Books
Foreign in a domestic sense: Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and paradoxes in critical urban studies
The 2017 Puerto Rican debt crisis is as instructive as it is sad, reflective of the familiar pressures of late modern capitalism (namely neoliberalisation, financialisation, crisis, and austerity) as well as its own unique dynamics percolating through four hundred years of colonialism and a century of legal subjugation to Washington, DC. Neither one-off explanations of fiscal crisis nor casual conflation with other cases suffice to adequately acc…
Advanced perspectives on financialised urban infrastructures
This Special Issue attempts to clarify how urban infrastructure is being funded, financed and governed. In this commentary, I seek to engage the topic of the Special Issue as a whole – infrastructure financialisation and its governance – albeit through examples provided by individual article contributions. It is a collection emphasising the tangled interaction between public and private, urging a view of financialisation beyond the binary states …
The state's estate: Devaluing and revaluing 'surplus' public land in Canada
Since the mid-1990s, Canadian public real property (land, buildings, and equipment) has been subject to regular scrutiny through bureaucratic procedures aimed at ridding the state's estate of all 'surplus' properties. Surplus is transferred to Canada Lands Company, a state owned enterprise charged with privatizing public land. Bureaucratic devaluation thus allows for subsequent revaluation through multiple forms of state-sponsored remediation: th…
Privatizing Canadian government land and real estate: Railroads, reconciliation, and rip-offs
Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country
State and collective ownership: Thwarting and enabling financialization
In The Long Shadow of the State: Financializing the Chinese City, Fulong Wu uncovers the salience of financial imperatives where otherwise unexpected. Querying whether there is a discernable financial turn in Chinese urban governance akin to that of Western capitalism, the “partial” financialization of Chinese cities is said to turn on its distinctive “state-led” nature. Inspired by Wu’s method of analysis, this discussion paper offers an elabora…
Reconciling with capitalism: Selling Crown land to settle with First Nations
This article examines the connection between privatization and reconciliation in Canada, witnessed through the disposal of federal and provincial land in Vancouver. The Jericho Lands were sold to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‐Waututh Development Corporation (MST) in joint partnership with the federal Crown corporation Canada Lands Company (CLC). This deal was partially funded through Crown‐provided accommodation payments seeking to address u…
Debt and Austerity: Implications of the Financial Crisis
Just when we thought we had a handle on the global financial crisis (GFC)—at least as academic analyses and economic practicalities go—a sudden, largely unexpected shock, the likes of which had not
State Capitalism is Capitalism in Canada
The long arc of state capitalism in Canada indicates that state capitalism is capitalism, and that liberal, particularly neoliberal, discourse of distinct private markets underpinned by public sector laissez-faire mentality is largely a fiction. Crosscutting historical and contemporary trends reveal that state-owned enterprises have both supported capitalist development and reflected changes within the capitalist system; thus the neoliberal era m…
Company colonies and historical layering: Understanding the Virginia, Somers Isles, and Hudson’s Bay Companies
This paper develops comparative case studies of the Virginia, Somers Isles, and Hudson’s Bay Companies’ colonies. The analysis uncovers significant historical layering through multifaceted and dynamic modes of production, class relations, corporate governance forms, land ownership schemes, and legal arrangements. Company colonies emerged as hybrid combinations of partially feudal company-owned plantations using white indentured servitude together…
Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers to be published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the first of these introductory commentaries, we highlight some of the potentially productive ambiguities that accompany the new state capitalism rubric.…
State capitalism as Lazarus meets Loch Ness: Insights from the Asiatic mode of production
This paper comments on the unexamined bifurcation of new state capitalism studies into two camps: changes in liberal capitalism and analyses of illiberal state forms. I characterize these aspects as Lazarus meets Loch Ness: Lazarus-like when focused on the ever-reborn market interventions of the liberal capitalist state, and Loch Ness-like in its rediscovery of the resurfaced 'other
Beyond death and taxes: Fiscal studies and the fiscal state
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in fiscal studies, from the new fiscal sociology to fiscal geographies and beyond, with roots in the 20th century theories of Schumpeter (liberal) and O'Connor (Marxian). The notion of a 'tax state' remains particularly germane, and indeed fiscal studies have all but narrowed to assessments of the relations and implications of taxation. This paper calls for a meaningful engagemen…
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the second of these introductory commentaries, we explore the consequences of embracing relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development, together with …
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