Shaina Pott
Biographic Data
| ID | 309823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaina Pott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaina |
| FAMILY NAME | Pott |
| SIGNATURE | POTT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2414-4506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Redefining ‘state’ and ‘market’
In a moment of substantial changes in state economic policy around the world, Alami's analysis of the recent proliferation of foreign investment screening mechanisms contributes empirically and conceptually to heated debates about the future of globalization, including the urgent task of understanding law's role in mediating shifting state–capital relations. This commentary situates Alami's account in comparison to changes in foreign sovereign im…
Empire and/in/of capital
In response to the four generous contributions to this forum on Judicial Territory, the bulk of this paper focuses on how to conceptualize the relationship among law, capitalism and empire. I suggest that it is important to avoid both legal and economic reductionism in our theorization of law and capitalism, and that, while law, capital and empire should be treated dialectically, there remains analytical utility to distinguishing between capitali…
Law's place in economic geography
In this piece, I make the case for deeper engagement with law and legal methodologies in economic geography. Recent work in and beyond geography has demonstrated that law is constitutive of capitalism. Yet, despite excellent research on many particular spatio-legal topics, there have been few attempts to conceptualize a legal approach to economic geography in any sustained way. Here, I suggest that incorporating law and legal methodologies into e…
Debt in the time of Covid-19
While countries in the Global North have staved off the worst economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through massive stimulus spending, this option has been unavailable to many low- and middle-income countries, largely because high debt burdens have constrained fiscal spending. Nevertheless, almost no debt relief has materialized. The ad hoc approach to sovereign debt governance that emerged out of the debt crises of the 1980s helps…
(Re)centring the geopolitical
In his thought‐provoking commentary on the future of economic geography, Henry Yeung considers recent global economic transformations and their implications for ‘troubling’ the discipline of economic geography. He identifies four particular areas for further attention: (1) (geo)political dynamics; (2) new risks and uncertainties; (3) new geographies of labour; and (4) global environmental change. In this brief response, I focus on the first and f…
Law as Geopolitics
The extension of domestic U.S. judicial authority to govern transnational economic relations involving foreign governments beyond official U.S. borders has been an important but largely overlooked component of the post–World War II international economic order. Using a critical spatial lens to analyze important U.S. common law changes, I show that a key strategy for achieving this extension has been redefining legal dichotomies to recode activity…
(Re-)writing markets
While many emphasize the supposed frictionlessness and instantaneity of global financial flows, economic geographers have done important work placing globalization in concrete practices and spaces. Yet, cross-border payment transactions, which are constitutive of transnational markets, remain understudied. In this paper, I use creditor litigation against Argentina as a lens through which to explore material geographies of transnational financial …
Economic Geography
In value's shadows
Defining capitalism
Deep finance
Links between ballooning national debts and official aid conditionalities are well understood. Private sovereign debt markets, in contrast, have been largely overlooked outside mainstream economics. Yet, since the 1980s, a 'secondary market regime' in sovereign bonds has transformed financial geographies and legal practices, facilitating the build-up of riskier sovereign debts and strengthening specialized distressed debt investors. This secondar…
Legal geographies of finance Editors' Introduction
If'the'global'financial'industry'has'escaped'unchastened'from'the'2008'collapse'and' its'aftermath,'its'deep'entanglement'with'the'neoliberal'state'is'clearly'part'of'the' explanation.'CrisisVera'scholarship'has'tackled'the'stateVfinance'nexus'with'renewed' vigor'and'creativity'(e.g.,'Krippner,'2011),'building'on'previous'demonstrations'that' states'have'driven'and'been'enlisted'in'financialization'for'decades'(e.g.,'Arrighi,' 2010[1994]; 'Gowan,…
Bringing the law back in
Reterritorializing economic governance
All large firms exploit regulatory variation across jurisdictions by exporting activity to strategic locations around the globe. Less well known are the ways major economic players bring other jurisdictions to them without moving at all. The use of governing law clauses by which parties select which jurisdiction's laws will apply to their contracts, means that many commercial contracts today, especially in finance, have little or no significant c…
Legal geographies of finance Editors' Introduction
If'the'global'financial'industry'has'escaped'unchastened'from'the'2008'collapse'and' its'aftermath,'its'deep'entanglement'with'the'neoliberal'state'is'clearly'part'of'the' explanation.'CrisisVera'scholarship'has'tackled'the'stateVfinance'nexus'with'renewed' vigor'and'creativity'(e.g.,'Krippner,'2011),'building'on'previous'demonstrations'that' states'have'driven'and'been'enlisted'in'financialization'for'decades'(e.g.,'Arrighi,' 2010[1994]; 'Gowan,…
Deep finance
Links between ballooning national debts and official aid conditionalities are well understood. Private sovereign debt markets, in contrast, have been largely overlooked outside mainstream economics. Yet, since the 1980s, a 'secondary market regime' in sovereign bonds has transformed financial geographies and legal practices, facilitating the build-up of riskier sovereign debts and strengthening specialized distressed debt investors. This secondar…
Reterritorializing economic governance
All large firms exploit regulatory variation across jurisdictions by exporting activity to strategic locations around the globe. Less well known are the ways major economic players bring other jurisdictions to them without moving at all. The use of governing law clauses by which parties select which jurisdiction's laws will apply to their contracts, means that many commercial contracts today, especially in finance, have little or no significant c…
In value's shadows
(Re)centring the geopolitical
In his thought‐provoking commentary on the future of economic geography, Henry Yeung considers recent global economic transformations and their implications for ‘troubling’ the discipline of economic geography. He identifies four particular areas for further attention: (1) (geo)political dynamics; (2) new risks and uncertainties; (3) new geographies of labour; and (4) global environmental change. In this brief response, I focus on the first and f…
(Re-)writing markets
While many emphasize the supposed frictionlessness and instantaneity of global financial flows, economic geographers have done important work placing globalization in concrete practices and spaces. Yet, cross-border payment transactions, which are constitutive of transnational markets, remain understudied. In this paper, I use creditor litigation against Argentina as a lens through which to explore material geographies of transnational financial …
Law's place in economic geography
In this piece, I make the case for deeper engagement with law and legal methodologies in economic geography. Recent work in and beyond geography has demonstrated that law is constitutive of capitalism. Yet, despite excellent research on many particular spatio-legal topics, there have been few attempts to conceptualize a legal approach to economic geography in any sustained way. Here, I suggest that incorporating law and legal methodologies into e…
Law as Geopolitics
The extension of domestic U.S. judicial authority to govern transnational economic relations involving foreign governments beyond official U.S. borders has been an important but largely overlooked component of the post–World War II international economic order. Using a critical spatial lens to analyze important U.S. common law changes, I show that a key strategy for achieving this extension has been redefining legal dichotomies to recode activity…
Redefining ‘state’ and ‘market’
In a moment of substantial changes in state economic policy around the world, Alami's analysis of the recent proliferation of foreign investment screening mechanisms contributes empirically and conceptually to heated debates about the future of globalization, including the urgent task of understanding law's role in mediating shifting state–capital relations. This commentary situates Alami's account in comparison to changes in foreign sovereign im…
Empire and/in/of capital
In response to the four generous contributions to this forum on Judicial Territory, the bulk of this paper focuses on how to conceptualize the relationship among law, capitalism and empire. I suggest that it is important to avoid both legal and economic reductionism in our theorization of law and capitalism, and that, while law, capital and empire should be treated dialectically, there remains analytical utility to distinguishing between capitali…
Defining capitalism
Bringing the law back in
Legal geographies of finance Editors' Introduction
If'the'global'financial'industry'has'escaped'unchastened'from'the'2008'collapse'and' its'aftermath,'its'deep'entanglement'with'the'neoliberal'state'is'clearly'part'of'the' explanation.'CrisisVera'scholarship'has'tackled'the'stateVfinance'nexus'with'renewed' vigor'and'creativity'(e.g.,'Krippner,'2011),'building'on'previous'demonstrations'that' states'have'driven'and'been'enlisted'in'financialization'for'decades'(e.g.,'Arrighi,' 2010[1994]; 'Gowan,…
Bringing the law back in
Reterritorializing economic governance
All large firms exploit regulatory variation across jurisdictions by exporting activity to strategic locations around the globe. Less well known are the ways major economic players bring other jurisdictions to them without moving at all. The use of governing law clauses by which parties select which jurisdiction's laws will apply to their contracts, means that many commercial contracts today, especially in finance, have little or no significant c…
Deep finance
Links between ballooning national debts and official aid conditionalities are well understood. Private sovereign debt markets, in contrast, have been largely overlooked outside mainstream economics. Yet, since the 1980s, a 'secondary market regime' in sovereign bonds has transformed financial geographies and legal practices, facilitating the build-up of riskier sovereign debts and strengthening specialized distressed debt investors. This secondar…
Economic Geography
In value's shadows
Defining capitalism
Law as Geopolitics
The extension of domestic U.S. judicial authority to govern transnational economic relations involving foreign governments beyond official U.S. borders has been an important but largely overlooked component of the post–World War II international economic order. Using a critical spatial lens to analyze important U.S. common law changes, I show that a key strategy for achieving this extension has been redefining legal dichotomies to recode activity…
(Re-)writing markets
While many emphasize the supposed frictionlessness and instantaneity of global financial flows, economic geographers have done important work placing globalization in concrete practices and spaces. Yet, cross-border payment transactions, which are constitutive of transnational markets, remain understudied. In this paper, I use creditor litigation against Argentina as a lens through which to explore material geographies of transnational financial …
Debt in the time of Covid-19
While countries in the Global North have staved off the worst economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through massive stimulus spending, this option has been unavailable to many low- and middle-income countries, largely because high debt burdens have constrained fiscal spending. Nevertheless, almost no debt relief has materialized. The ad hoc approach to sovereign debt governance that emerged out of the debt crises of the 1980s helps…
(Re)centring the geopolitical
In his thought‐provoking commentary on the future of economic geography, Henry Yeung considers recent global economic transformations and their implications for ‘troubling’ the discipline of economic geography. He identifies four particular areas for further attention: (1) (geo)political dynamics; (2) new risks and uncertainties; (3) new geographies of labour; and (4) global environmental change. In this brief response, I focus on the first and f…
Law's place in economic geography
In this piece, I make the case for deeper engagement with law and legal methodologies in economic geography. Recent work in and beyond geography has demonstrated that law is constitutive of capitalism. Yet, despite excellent research on many particular spatio-legal topics, there have been few attempts to conceptualize a legal approach to economic geography in any sustained way. Here, I suggest that incorporating law and legal methodologies into e…
Redefining ‘state’ and ‘market’
In a moment of substantial changes in state economic policy around the world, Alami's analysis of the recent proliferation of foreign investment screening mechanisms contributes empirically and conceptually to heated debates about the future of globalization, including the urgent task of understanding law's role in mediating shifting state–capital relations. This commentary situates Alami's account in comparison to changes in foreign sovereign im…
Empire and/in/of capital
In response to the four generous contributions to this forum on Judicial Territory, the bulk of this paper focuses on how to conceptualize the relationship among law, capitalism and empire. I suggest that it is important to avoid both legal and economic reductionism in our theorization of law and capitalism, and that, while law, capital and empire should be treated dialectically, there remains analytical utility to distinguishing between capitali…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Finance (4 works)