Lecture: Finance as a response to global environmental crises?

Professor Eve Chiapello, Research Director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Torsdag, 7 juni, 2018 - 09:30 to 10:30

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Location: KS43, CBS, Kilen, Kilevej 14, 2000 Frederiksberg

 

Lecture: Finance as a response to global environmental crises?

Eve Chiapello’s current work consists of exploring how calculative instruments, devices and mind-sets specific to financial activities are penetrating a range of non-financial sectors. In the lecture, Chiapello tries to document that a great many reform plans and systems devised in response to what can be seen as capitalism’s crises draw on the knowledge, know-how, problem identification and problem-solving methods of finance professionals. This is especially the case for environmental global politics. After presenting what Chiapello means by financialization of public policies, she will argue that since the last global financial crisis (2007-9), global environmental policies have entered a new regulatory phase characterized by public policies aiming at enrolling global finance, whose needs and demands have to be satisfied in order to be able to address environmental problems.


Professor Chiapello is Research Director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and became internationally known for her book (co-authored with Luc Boltanski) The New Spirit of Capitalism. Her research focuses on new forms of critique of capitalism and processes of financialization.

 

REGISTRATION

The event is free, but please register no later than Monday, June 4th to: 
mpp-relations@cbs.dk. For further questions please contact Assoc. Prof. Stefan Schwarzkopf (MPP): ssc.mpp@cbs.dk.

Sidst opdateret: Department of Business Humanities and Law // 31/05/2018