Michael Goldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Goldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldman |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9523-9721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 635 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Power, Politics, Money, and the State
Speculative urbanism and the urban-financial conjuncture: Interrogating the afterlives of the financial crisis
This article proposes an analytical-methodological approach to understand this historical conjuncture of speculative urbanism in which global finance capital plays an increasingly important role in urban transformation. Whereas the scholarship on urban financialization makes sharp distinctions between what occurs in the global North and the South, portraying the process in the South as one of subordination or peripheralization and in the North as…
Through the Optics of Finance: Speculative Urbanism and the Transformation of Markets
Rebooting Content: Broadcasting Sport and Esports to Homes During Covid-19
Beginning in early March 2020, sport in the United States entered an unprecedented period of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The postponement, suspension, and cancellation of live sporting events impacted every professional and amateur sport organization, from the National Basketball Association to the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, high school sports to college football, and even esports leagues. Although the abrupt cancell…
Dispossession by financialization: The End(s) of Rurality in the Making of a Speculative Land Market
This article elaborates upon the concept of speculative urbanism and the theory of accumulation by dispossession by delving into the recent history of the transformation of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) India into a global city. It explains how the conversion of rural land into urban real estate for 'global-city' projects triggered distinct forms of dispossession and financialization. The shifting practices of global finance capital along with i…
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach. Michael Goldman takes us inside World Bank headquarters in Washington…
Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
With the Declining Significance of Labor, Who Is Producing our Global Cities
This article engages the question of what happens to labor as Indian cities become transformed into “global cities.” It does so by focusing on the convergence of three interrelated trends over the past few decades: the informalization of labor, the making of global cities, and the financialization of the economy. The article explains the effect on labor, capital, and urban space of this concatenation of trends. It challenges the conclusion of urb…
Introduction: Urban revolutions in the age of global urbanism
This special issue, papers presented at an Urban Studies Foundation-funded conference in Jakarta (March 2011), examines the current 'urban century' in terms of three revolutions. Revolutions from above index the logics and norms of mainstream global urbanism, particularly the form they have taken as policymakers work with municipal officials worldwide to organise urban development around neoliberal norms. Revolutions from below refer to the multi…
Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy
Speculating on the next World City
Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City: Speculative urbanism in Bangalore
This article explores the process of making Bangalore, India into a ‘world city’ by focusing on specific world-city projects, the parastatal government agencies managing them, the explosive IT industry as the putative engine behind this world-city making, and the inter-urban dynamics across world cities such as Dubai and Singapore. Most of these activities are linked to the highly remunerative challenge of transforming rural economies into urban …
Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank
What's Nature Got to Do with It
My congressional representative called a town hall meeting recently on the topic of global warming. He invited a panel of promi nent local environmentalists from which he wanted an agenda that he could take back to Washington. The first presenter was truly amazing-he trekked/kayaked/swam across the Arctic Circle measuring ice melt and pub licizing the rapid changes occurring due to warming temperatures. The analytic frame of fered by the rest of …
How “Water for All!” policy became hegemonic: The power of the World Bank and its transnational policy networks
Imperial nature: The World Bank and struggles for justice in the age of globalization
Tracing the roots/routes of World Bank power
Most of the literature on the World Bank struggles to understand precisely how effective are the Bank's projects and policies, emphasizing at the same time as reaffirming certain universal parameters with which to measure the good and the bad. This article, by contrast, argues for a different way of seeing the World Bank, that is, for scholarship that interrogates the political rationalities which underlie these distinctions and categories and wh…
From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations
Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy
Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization, which holds that although processes of modernization and globalization often result in environmental degradation,…
Notes from the World Summit in Johannesburg: History in the Making
A Transcendental Defense of Speciesism
Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-governmentality and other Transnational Practices of a 'Green' World Bank
This article contends that the debates on the effects of "globalization" on states and state power could be enhanced by focusing on new global regulatory regimes for the environment, especially those that have recently been designed and operationalized by the World Bank in its borrowing countries. The article concentrates on both the changing structural relations within and among states, which has led to the construction of transnationalized envi…
The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Authoritative Green Knowledge, World Bank-Style
After 10 long years of growing social movement pressure, the World Bank has effectively responded with a new work paradigm, `environmentally sustainable development', that aggressively incorporates lessons from its worst critics (as well as some of the critics themselves). This article focuses on a case study of the World Bank's transformation-in-progress in Lao People's Democratic Republic to explicate the institutional and epistemic framework o…
House organ
Closing the 'Great Divide: New Social Theory on Society and Nature
Twenty years ago, two environmental sociologists made a bold call for a paradigmatic shift in the discipline of sociology-namely, one that would bring nature into the center of sociological inquiry and recognize the inseparability of nature and society. In this essay, we review recent scholarship that seeks to meet this challenge. The respective strands of this literature come from the margins of environmental sociology and border on other arenas…
Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City: Speculative urbanism in Bangalore
This article explores the process of making Bangalore, India into a ‘world city’ by focusing on specific world-city projects, the parastatal government agencies managing them, the explosive IT industry as the putative engine behind this world-city making, and the inter-urban dynamics across world cities such as Dubai and Singapore. Most of these activities are linked to the highly remunerative challenge of transforming rural economies into urban …
Closing the 'Great Divide: New Social Theory on Society and Nature
Twenty years ago, two environmental sociologists made a bold call for a paradigmatic shift in the discipline of sociology-namely, one that would bring nature into the center of sociological inquiry and recognize the inseparability of nature and society. In this essay, we review recent scholarship that seeks to meet this challenge. The respective strands of this literature come from the margins of environmental sociology and border on other arenas…
How “Water for All!” policy became hegemonic: The power of the World Bank and its transnational policy networks
Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-governmentality and other Transnational Practices of a 'Green' World Bank
This article contends that the debates on the effects of "globalization" on states and state power could be enhanced by focusing on new global regulatory regimes for the environment, especially those that have recently been designed and operationalized by the World Bank in its borrowing countries. The article concentrates on both the changing structural relations within and among states, which has led to the construction of transnationalized envi…
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach. Michael Goldman takes us inside World Bank headquarters in Washington…
Dispossession by financialization: The End(s) of Rurality in the Making of a Speculative Land Market
This article elaborates upon the concept of speculative urbanism and the theory of accumulation by dispossession by delving into the recent history of the transformation of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) India into a global city. It explains how the conversion of rural land into urban real estate for 'global-city' projects triggered distinct forms of dispossession and financialization. The shifting practices of global finance capital along with i…
The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Authoritative Green Knowledge, World Bank-Style
After 10 long years of growing social movement pressure, the World Bank has effectively responded with a new work paradigm, `environmentally sustainable development', that aggressively incorporates lessons from its worst critics (as well as some of the critics themselves). This article focuses on a case study of the World Bank's transformation-in-progress in Lao People's Democratic Republic to explicate the institutional and epistemic framework o…
Introduction: Urban revolutions in the age of global urbanism
This special issue, papers presented at an Urban Studies Foundation-funded conference in Jakarta (March 2011), examines the current 'urban century' in terms of three revolutions. Revolutions from above index the logics and norms of mainstream global urbanism, particularly the form they have taken as policymakers work with municipal officials worldwide to organise urban development around neoliberal norms. Revolutions from below refer to the multi…
Speculative urbanism and the urban-financial conjuncture: Interrogating the afterlives of the financial crisis
This article proposes an analytical-methodological approach to understand this historical conjuncture of speculative urbanism in which global finance capital plays an increasingly important role in urban transformation. Whereas the scholarship on urban financialization makes sharp distinctions between what occurs in the global North and the South, portraying the process in the South as one of subordination or peripheralization and in the North as…
Customs in common: The epistemic world of the commons scholars
Tracing the roots/routes of World Bank power
Most of the literature on the World Bank struggles to understand precisely how effective are the Bank's projects and policies, emphasizing at the same time as reaffirming certain universal parameters with which to measure the good and the bad. This article, by contrast, argues for a different way of seeing the World Bank, that is, for scholarship that interrogates the political rationalities which underlie these distinctions and categories and wh…
Through the Optics of Finance: Speculative Urbanism and the Transformation of Markets
With the Declining Significance of Labor, Who Is Producing our Global Cities
This article engages the question of what happens to labor as Indian cities become transformed into “global cities.” It does so by focusing on the convergence of three interrelated trends over the past few decades: the informalization of labor, the making of global cities, and the financialization of the economy. The article explains the effect on labor, capital, and urban space of this concatenation of trends. It challenges the conclusion of urb…
What's Nature Got to Do with It
My congressional representative called a town hall meeting recently on the topic of global warming. He invited a panel of promi nent local environmentalists from which he wanted an agenda that he could take back to Washington. The first presenter was truly amazing-he trekked/kayaked/swam across the Arctic Circle measuring ice melt and pub licizing the rapid changes occurring due to warming temperatures. The analytic frame of fered by the rest of …
Tragedy of the commons or the commoners’ tragedy: The state and ecological crisis in India
1993). Tragedy of the commons or the commoners’ tragedy: The state and ecological crisis in India. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 49-68
Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy
Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization, which holds that although processes of modernization and globalization often result in environmental degradation,…
A Transcendental Defense of Speciesism
Ideologies of environmental crisis: Technology and its discontents
1988). Ideologies of environmental crisis: Technology and its discontents. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 91-106
Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations
Hamlet: Entering the Text
How does a person relate to a text? This has become the burdensome general question of contemporary criticism; and if it is admittedly the general form of all questions in literary criticism, the contemporary point about it lies in the fact that it is a burden, one that seems so paralyzing, so often full of a kind of adolescent despair as to bring criticism to a halt-before the gap of difference, the indeterminacy of the text, the death of the au…
Cultivating hot peppers and water crisis in India's desert: Toward a theory of understanding ecological crisis
Laxmi Chand Tyagi, a local social worker, in a conversation on the role of resistance in the lives of the Jodhpuri peasants: “Actually the first Chipko movement started in Jodhpur 300 years ago when the king of Jodhpur asked his guards to go into the villages and cut down the trees for the construction of his new fort. The villagers protested, putting themselves between the guards and the precious trees. The first to die was a woman; 360 peasants…
The “Mirch‐Masala” of chili peppers: The production of drought in the Jodhpur region of Rajasthan∗
1988). The “Mirch‐Masala” of chili peppers: The production of drought in the Jodhpur region of Rajasthan. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 83-92
Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture
Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture
Ideologies of environmental crisis: Technology and its discontents
1988). Ideologies of environmental crisis: Technology and its discontents. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 91-106
The “Mirch‐Masala” of chili peppers: The production of drought in the Jodhpur region of Rajasthan∗
1988). The “Mirch‐Masala” of chili peppers: The production of drought in the Jodhpur region of Rajasthan. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 83-92
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden. 1987
Cultivating hot peppers and water crisis in India's desert: Toward a theory of understanding ecological crisis
Laxmi Chand Tyagi, a local social worker, in a conversation on the role of resistance in the lives of the Jodhpuri peasants: “Actually the first Chipko movement started in Jodhpur 300 years ago when the king of Jodhpur asked his guards to go into the villages and cut down the trees for the construction of his new fort. The villagers protested, putting themselves between the guards and the precious trees. The first to die was a woman; 360 peasants…
Hamlet: Entering the Text
How does a person relate to a text? This has become the burdensome general question of contemporary criticism; and if it is admittedly the general form of all questions in literary criticism, the contemporary point about it lies in the fact that it is a burden, one that seems so paralyzing, so often full of a kind of adolescent despair as to bring criticism to a halt-before the gap of difference, the indeterminacy of the text, the death of the au…
Amazon thoughts
Stephen G. Bunker. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985. Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn: The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. Harper Perennial, New York, 1990. Chico Mendes: Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words. (Additional material by Tony Gross). Latin American Bureau, London, 1989; dis…
Tragedy of the commons or the commoners’ tragedy: The state and ecological crisis in India
1993). Tragedy of the commons or the commoners’ tragedy: The state and ecological crisis in India. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 49-68
From a luncheonette
Sharing the Ganges: The Politics and Technology of River Development
Introduction A Diversion The Decision To Build Farakka Conflict and Disagreement - 1947-1971 Co-Operation and Agreement - 1971-1977 The Effects of Farakka Augmenting the Ganges Flow Negotiations and Stalemate - 1977-1982 The Rise and Fall of New Initiatives - 1983-1987 Some Dynamics of Regional Co-Operation
Customs in common: The epistemic world of the commons scholars
House organ
Closing the 'Great Divide: New Social Theory on Society and Nature
Twenty years ago, two environmental sociologists made a bold call for a paradigmatic shift in the discipline of sociology-namely, one that would bring nature into the center of sociological inquiry and recognize the inseparability of nature and society. In this essay, we review recent scholarship that seeks to meet this challenge. The respective strands of this literature come from the margins of environmental sociology and border on other arenas…
A Transcendental Defense of Speciesism
Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-governmentality and other Transnational Practices of a 'Green' World Bank
This article contends that the debates on the effects of "globalization" on states and state power could be enhanced by focusing on new global regulatory regimes for the environment, especially those that have recently been designed and operationalized by the World Bank in its borrowing countries. The article concentrates on both the changing structural relations within and among states, which has led to the construction of transnationalized envi…
The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Authoritative Green Knowledge, World Bank-Style
After 10 long years of growing social movement pressure, the World Bank has effectively responded with a new work paradigm, `environmentally sustainable development', that aggressively incorporates lessons from its worst critics (as well as some of the critics themselves). This article focuses on a case study of the World Bank's transformation-in-progress in Lao People's Democratic Republic to explicate the institutional and epistemic framework o…
Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy
Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization, which holds that although processes of modernization and globalization often result in environmental degradation,…
Notes from the World Summit in Johannesburg: History in the Making
Imperial nature: The World Bank and struggles for justice in the age of globalization
Tracing the roots/routes of World Bank power
Most of the literature on the World Bank struggles to understand precisely how effective are the Bank's projects and policies, emphasizing at the same time as reaffirming certain universal parameters with which to measure the good and the bad. This article, by contrast, argues for a different way of seeing the World Bank, that is, for scholarship that interrogates the political rationalities which underlie these distinctions and categories and wh…
From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations
How “Water for All!” policy became hegemonic: The power of the World Bank and its transnational policy networks
What's Nature Got to Do with It
My congressional representative called a town hall meeting recently on the topic of global warming. He invited a panel of promi nent local environmentalists from which he wanted an agenda that he could take back to Washington. The first presenter was truly amazing-he trekked/kayaked/swam across the Arctic Circle measuring ice melt and pub licizing the rapid changes occurring due to warming temperatures. The analytic frame of fered by the rest of …
Speculating on the next World City
Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City: Speculative urbanism in Bangalore
This article explores the process of making Bangalore, India into a ‘world city’ by focusing on specific world-city projects, the parastatal government agencies managing them, the explosive IT industry as the putative engine behind this world-city making, and the inter-urban dynamics across world cities such as Dubai and Singapore. Most of these activities are linked to the highly remunerative challenge of transforming rural economies into urban …
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