<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Buxton</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@tni.org">nick@tni.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:34 PM<br>Subject: [Networked-Labour] call for essays on finance and power<br>To: <a href="mailto:networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc">networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc</a><br><br><br>
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<p>Dear Networked Labour,<br>
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This network has provided some great contributors in the past so
sharing this again now...</p>
<p>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.
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<p>The deadline for abstracts is 7 September. <br>
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Please share with people/networks who may be interested.<br>
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<a class="m_3768277799402192501moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-essays-on-finance-and-power-for-state-of-power-2019" target="_blank">https://www.tni.org/en/<wbr>article/call-for-essays-on-<wbr>finance-and-power-for-state-<wbr>of-power-2019</a><br>
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Thanks, Nick<br>
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<h1>Call for essays on finance and power for State of Power 2019</h1>
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 <strong>finance
and power</strong>.
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<p>TNI’s annual <a href="https://www.tni.org/en/collection/state-of-power" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">State of Power reports</a> 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.</p>
<p>With a mixture of <a href="https://www.tni.org/en/infographic/planet-earth-corporate-world" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">compelling infographics</a> 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.</p>
<h2><strong>Finance and power</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In recent decades, though, financial power has reached <a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/financialisation-a-primer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new precedented heights</a>. The financial sector
has come to dominate the global economy, taken over ever larger
sections of public life, commodified everything from air (<a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/carbon-trading-how-it-works-and-why-it-fails" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">carbon trading</a>) to education, rewritten
global economic rules and policies, taken over global
institutions, put a stranglehold on any government that dares defy
it and even <a href="http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power/age-of-monsters/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">transformed our culture</a> and language.</p>
<p>Perhaps the greatest evidence of its power is the way that the <a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-tyranny-of-global-finance-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sector has emerged unregulated and even stronger</a>
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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/economics-as-ideology-challenging-expert-political-power" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">unmasking its power</a> and understanding our own
power and capacity to take control of money and finance.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p><strong>Full call:
<a class="m_3768277799402192501moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-essays-on-finance-and-power-for-state-of-power-2019" target="_blank">https://www.tni.org/en/<wbr>article/call-for-essays-on-<wbr>finance-and-power-for-state-<wbr>of-power-2019</a><br>
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