Imperial Nature

By M. Goldman. 2017

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This text provides a close examination of the inner workings of the World 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.

Subfields: Development

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Citations in the corpus

• Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century (2008, background): “…(Frank et al. 2000), this diffusion occurred alongside trade pressures that limit enforcement capacities in developing countries (Porter 1999) and the rise of decontextualized, neoliberal theorizations of environmentalism that provide little leverage for changing concrete practices (Goldman 2005).”
• The remit of financial geography—before and after the crisis (2009, background): “While there is already a strong tradition of ethnographic work in literatures in Anthropology, Sociology, Social Studies of Finance and Actor Network Theory (e.g. Maurer, 2005; Goldman 2005; MacKenzie, 2006), one potentially fruitful avenue of exploration would produce complementary ethnographies in”
• To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations (2010, background): “The phrase “policy-induced poverty” has entered the critical discourse that circulates among some donors in Laos, but it has not interrupted the resettlement agenda (Baird and Shoemaker 2007; Vandergeest 2003a; Goldman 2005).”
• Pimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism (2009, background): “There is, of course, much more to be said about green capitalism, its origins, and a proliferation of market fundamentalism in contemporary environmental policy making (see eg Goldman, 2005; Heynen et al, 2007; Krueger and Gibbs, 2007; Liverman, 2004; McAfee, 1999; Mansfield, 2004a; 2004b; 2007).”