Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar
Biographic Data
| ID | 72634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinzenz Bäumer |
| FAMILY NAME | Escobar |
| SIGNATURE | ESCOBAR V B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo, Norway; Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0602-9336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speculative connections
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connections with prospective hydrogen export zones in the global South. Specifically, it analyses the role of a particular discursive tool, the pre-feasibility report, in fixing the meaning of Namibian territory for the purposes of green hydrogen export, disembedding hydrogen products from the social, politic…
The Crisis of Movement
The COVID-19 Pandemic issued a cascading crisis in the transport sector and has signified a wholesale reconfiguration of global supply chains. In studying supply chains, anthropological scholarship has tended to focus on tracking particular commodities as they move from producer to consumer. The central sites of circulation that enable this very movement of goods, however, remain understudied. Container ports in particular are key nodes where the…
"The economy of trust"? Competing grassroots economics and the mobilization of (mis-)trust in a Catalonian cooperative
Rather than theorizing trust and mistrust in the abstract, recent anthropological scholarship has shown how trust and mistrust emerge in particular social settings. In this article, I build on this scholarship by drawing on fieldwork with the members of an anti-capitalist Catalonian cooperative who looked to create alternative economic systems that were said to be based on trust. The central aim of this article is to redirect analytical attention…
The Fiscal Commons
This article challenges the seemingly inseparable conceptual link between tax and the state by drawing on fieldwork carried out with an anti-capitalist cooperative in Barcelona, where tax evasion went hand in hand with the pooling of common monetary resources used for the creation of semi-public goods managed by non-state actors. Drawing on theoretical insights from the commons, I will put forward the concept of the ‘fiscal commons’ in order to d…
Re-Assembling the Economy
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the creation of alternative economic projects in Catalonia that are presented as alternatives to capitalism and the state. It is based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork with two distinct yet related projects: an eco-network in a rural area in the North of ... read more Catalonia, and an organization based in Barcelona that I refer to as 'the Cooperative'. The members of both the eco-network and C…
Speculative connections
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connections with prospective hydrogen export zones in the global South. Specifically, it analyses the role of a particular discursive tool, the pre-feasibility report, in fixing the meaning of Namibian territory for the purposes of green hydrogen export, disembedding hydrogen products from the social, politic…
The Crisis of Movement
The COVID-19 Pandemic issued a cascading crisis in the transport sector and has signified a wholesale reconfiguration of global supply chains. In studying supply chains, anthropological scholarship has tended to focus on tracking particular commodities as they move from producer to consumer. The central sites of circulation that enable this very movement of goods, however, remain understudied. Container ports in particular are key nodes where the…
The Fiscal Commons
This article challenges the seemingly inseparable conceptual link between tax and the state by drawing on fieldwork carried out with an anti-capitalist cooperative in Barcelona, where tax evasion went hand in hand with the pooling of common monetary resources used for the creation of semi-public goods managed by non-state actors. Drawing on theoretical insights from the commons, I will put forward the concept of the ‘fiscal commons’ in order to d…
Re-Assembling the Economy
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the creation of alternative economic projects in Catalonia that are presented as alternatives to capitalism and the state. It is based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork with two distinct yet related projects: an eco-network in a rural area in the North of ... read more Catalonia, and an organization based in Barcelona that I refer to as 'the Cooperative'. The members of both the eco-network and C…
The Crisis of Movement
The COVID-19 Pandemic issued a cascading crisis in the transport sector and has signified a wholesale reconfiguration of global supply chains. In studying supply chains, anthropological scholarship has tended to focus on tracking particular commodities as they move from producer to consumer. The central sites of circulation that enable this very movement of goods, however, remain understudied. Container ports in particular are key nodes where the…
"The economy of trust"? Competing grassroots economics and the mobilization of (mis-)trust in a Catalonian cooperative
Rather than theorizing trust and mistrust in the abstract, recent anthropological scholarship has shown how trust and mistrust emerge in particular social settings. In this article, I build on this scholarship by drawing on fieldwork with the members of an anti-capitalist Catalonian cooperative who looked to create alternative economic systems that were said to be based on trust. The central aim of this article is to redirect analytical attention…
Speculative connections
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connections with prospective hydrogen export zones in the global South. Specifically, it analyses the role of a particular discursive tool, the pre-feasibility report, in fixing the meaning of Namibian territory for the purposes of green hydrogen export, disembedding hydrogen products from the social, politic…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economic system (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)