Bass Connections
Whole Earth, Fractured Planetary: Geohistory, Climate Justice and the Crisis of Capitalism
Smith Warehouse Bay 6 Rm B271 114 S Buchanan Blvd, Durham, United StatesJason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Antropocene?(Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World […]
The Moral Economy of Debt: Unsettling paradoxes of Neoliberal Market Creeds
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, Durham, NCPatricia Northover specializes in economic philosophy and critical development studies. She is a Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Mona (SALISES, UWI) and Chair of the sustainable rural and agricultural development research cluster at SALISES, Mona (see, salises-srad.com). Dr. Northover is […]
Amoral Markets: Accumulation by Drugpossession and Armspossession in 19th Century China
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, Durham, NCMark Driscoll is Associate Professor of East Asian and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is an intellectual historian and cultural studies scholar of East Asia, focusing on Japan’s historical interactions with its regional neighbors, Korea and China. His first book was a monograph on the Japanese imperial propagandist Yuasa […]
Extravagant Geometries: Art and the Collapse of Modernization in Latin America
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, Durham, NCJaime Acosta Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University. His dissertation, Writing in the Interregnum: Fiction and the Neoliberalization of Democracy examines how contemporary fiction encodes both the breakdown of the interstate geopolitical system and the failure of new global democratic forms to emerge in the age of globalization. His research interests […]
The Microcredit Mousetrap: From the Promise of Fighting Poverty to a New Form of Financial Slavery in Mexico w/ Antonio Orozco Ramos
The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, Durham, NCAntonio Orozco studied Business Administration at the Mexican University Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and an AD2 Top Management Program by the IPADE Business School. He has held several senior directorial positions on Microfinance Institutions in Mexico; has worked for PlaNet Finance, a global French consulting company specializing in Microfinance, and provided […]