[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networked-Labour] call for essays on finance and power

Mon Jul 23 18:32:49 CEST 2018

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From: Nick Buxton <nick at tni.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:34 PM
Subject: [Networked-Labour] call for essays on finance and power
To: networked-labour_igopnet at lists.igopnet.cc

Dear Networked Labour,

This network has provided some great contributors in the past so sharing
this again now...

For Transnational Institute's eighth edition of State of Power (2019), we
are delving deep into finance and power. We are looking for essays and
other proposals (infographics, art etc) that help understand the power of
the financial sector and ways social movements can better challenge and
democratise money and finance.

The deadline for abstracts is 7 September.

Please share with people/networks who may be interested.

https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-essays-on-
finance-and-power-for-state-of-power-2019

Thanks, Nick

Call for essays on finance and power for State of Power 2019 The
Transnational Institute (TNI) in the Netherlands is issuing an open call
for essays, short papers, infographics and artistic collaborations for its
forthcoming State of Power report launched in late January 2019 to coincide
with the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2019, we are particularly
looking for accessible, engaging essays and artistic explorations that
explore the issue of *finance and power*.

TNI’s annual State of Power reports
<https://www.tni.org/en/collection/state-of-power> have, since their launch
in 2012, become a must-see reference point for citizens, activists and
academics concerned with understanding the nature of power in our
globalised world in order to inform struggles for justice.

With a mixture of compelling infographics
<https://www.tni.org/en/infographic/planet-earth-corporate-world> and
insightful essays, State of Power has examined dimensions of power
(economic, political, social), exposed the key players who control power,
and highlighted movements of counter-power seeking to transform our world.
Recent State of Power reports have been widely praised for their inspiring
essays and brilliant art.
*Finance and power*

The financial sector is embedded in the emergence of capitalism and
imperialism. Financial firms were critical to colonial adventures,
underpinned slavery, and have consistently exacerbated inequality,
reinforced political elites, held revolutionary movements hostage, and
treated the poor and vulnerable as collateral damage in regular cycles of
crisis.

In recent decades, though, financial power has reached new precedented
heights <https://www.tni.org/en/publication/financialisation-a-primer>. The
financial sector has come to dominate the global economy, taken over ever
larger sections of public life, commodified everything from air (carbon
trading
<https://www.tni.org/en/publication/carbon-trading-how-it-works-and-why-it-fails>)
to education, rewritten global economic rules and policies, taken over
global institutions, put a stranglehold on any government that dares defy
it and even transformed our culture
<http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power/age-of-monsters/> and language.

Perhaps the greatest evidence of its power is the way that the sector has
emerged unregulated and even stronger
<https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-tyranny-of-global-finance-0>
despite precipitating the global economic crisis in 2008 ten years ago. And
there is little sign of its power being contained, as new waves of
financialisation unfold. Moreover, obscured behind a screen of jargon and
algorithms, far too few social movements or progressive politicians dare to
stand up and challenge it.

Yet, at the same time, financial power is fragile, riven with and, in fact,
driven forward by contradictions and crises - and therefore also has the
potential to be challenged and overthrown. But this will require unmasking
its power
<https://www.tni.org/en/publication/economics-as-ideology-challenging-expert-political-power>
and understanding our own power and capacity to take control of money and
finance.

How can we better understand and thereby unmask the financial sector? What
is the nature of its power? How are we to understand their power-grab?
Where might Big Finance’s Achilles heel be? What are the fissures and
friction-points within the financial world that can become opportunities
for struggle? Are there successful examples of confronting financial power?
How can social movements better confront Big Finance? How can we regain
popular democratic control over finance and money?

*Full call:
https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-essays-on-finance-and-power-for-state-of-power-2019
<https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-essays-on-finance-and-power-for-state-of-power-2019>
*

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