Urban Visions of Global Climate Finance
Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4383386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Hilbrandt (0000-0001-8873-425X, University of Zurich, corresponding author), Fritz‐julius Grafe (0000-0002-0014-4843, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 896-905 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.13106 |
| OpenAlex | W4298146153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 40 |
Of late, the trope of the green, smart and climate-resilient city has dominated imaginations of urban futures across the globe. Less visible perhaps, but arguably of equal social impact, global climate finance (GCF) agendas have asserted themselves as the only imaginable pathway to do and undo such futures in effective ways. Based on a document analysis of recent GCF reports, this contribution unpicks the mechanisms of 'futuring' advanced in this process of agenda setting, and sketches its inherent imaginaries of a model future city. We borrow from John Berger's city of Troy and call this city Groy. Groy is a metaphor for green growth; it is the World Bank's fantasy project: a techno-capitalist vision of prosperity, the bank's donor darling and its best practice case. In rendering this fantasy into a fictional city, we explore how future visions of urban GCF initiatives shape cities today to allow for a sustained critique of that future and, in consequence, a rethinking of present times. Our analysis builds on the work of futurists Ben Anderson and John Urry, and an emerging debate that seeks to postcolonialize climate finance, to demand thinking about definancialization beyond regulation as a sociopolitical process of opening up the future for other imaginations
Aesthetics · Capitalism · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Fantasy · Futures contract · Futures studies · Globe · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Vision · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Finance
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Imagining the flood
Bonding out the future
The urbanization of climate finance
Thinking through material incompletion
The Future Scenarios of Cities
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Un/Doing Future, Unsettling Temporalization
Beyond Geography, Past Time
Plantation Futures
From billions to trillions’
The temporalities of financialization
Introduction
Supporting the future of municipal bonds in sub-Saharan Africa
Urban geography III
Geographies of finance III
New scholarly pathways on green gentrification
Anticipatory logics of the smart city’s global imaginary
The de-financialization of housing
All That Is Solid Melts into the Bay
From sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism
Imagined Futures
Postcolonialising Geography
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
The coloniality of disaster
Creative extraction
The Future Scenarios of Cities
Green Structural Adjustment in the World Bank's Resilient City
Postcolonial urban futures
The time of money in finance and US society
Revisiting minor theory
The anti-Blackness of global capital
Where Is the Future? Geography, Expectation and Experience Across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020
City of Repair
Un/Doing Future, Unsettling Temporalization
Towards a Postcolonial Perspective on Climate Urbanism
Cities and planetary repair
Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets
Financializing Detroit
The Wall Street Consensus
Neoliberal Temporality
Time
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |