dcockayne.bsky.social
Associate Professor, GEM, University of Waterloo. Economic and cultural geography of work through Marxist, feminist, queer, and affect theory. Mostly I'll post about books and stuff. (he/him)
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Only someone born and still living in Toronto, someone who has never left the GTA, could think this, surely...!
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In an attempt to be generous I'm wondering if some of these folks only knew the name of the panel they are speaking on and then overall event/poster detail was finalized later. Unlikely, but possible I suppose...
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I've been using the term straightening device after Ahmed and I also want to use cissening device but it just seems too clumsy somehow...!
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Or, perhaps, it's not.
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It's part of "Triptych, May–June 1973" I think.
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Especially when you know the story behind this one, it's horrible.
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Some of Francis Bacon's paintings are very good and very unpleasant to look at IMO.
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Good that it can be used against it's intended purposes! Thanks for sharing
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👀 Would you mind sharing the title of the Stoller paper?
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She forgot to read the Wikipedia page for Bodies That Matter!
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Sadly it's hard to do unless you're an attractive white man that says to other white men VCs in pitch events things like, "exploiting the poor has become too cumbersome, out product provides a solution for that."
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I mean... 🫣 No you're right, should have included research in this list too. 😅
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Happy to answer questions about these pieces! They are all open access, but please let me know if you are having difficulty accessing - email at [email protected], or DM on this platform. Thanks for reading!
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This is all while *depending upon* incumbent financial actors (banks, existing payment networks, venture capital funds) rather than (as in popular accounts) rejecting them. Fintech *builds on* and *collaborates with* the existing financial elites: it is not a democratization or rejection of them.
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It centres the household and social reproduction as domains of central interest to fintech researchers, and emphasizes how digital applications are transforming financial technologies through data extraction and by creating digital "ecosystems" for financial activity.
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Our framework highlights that social difference should be central to understandings of fintech, both as a way to understand how predatory activity works on these platforms, but also to highlight how difference functions as a mechanism for accumulation.
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This has been relatively unexamined in fintech research thus far (though see Gordan Tan's research), but it's central to broader processes that include the financialization of social reproduction and transformations of our societal relationships to consumer debt.
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This is a paper that pushes for a feminist analysis of financial technologies, building on feminist economic geography and feminist political economy. It uses "buy now, pay later" platforms as an example of how fintech is increasingly part of consumer spaces.
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Finally, @jessaloomis.bsky.social and I wrote a paper in @jcultecon.bsky.social "A Feminist approach to fintech: Exploring 'buy now, pay later,' technologies and consumer fintech." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We also use discourses around (and critiques of) The Great Resignation and Beyoncé's "Break My Soul" as framing mechanisms for the piece, in a way that we hope is both playful and elucidating.
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While primarily this is a critique of the demand to love your work from an anti-work and anti-productivist perspective, it also explores where discussions of love also make their way into anti-work narratives too, sometimes without problematizing love as a deeply ambivalent affective stance.
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Second, a paper co-authored with Anna Secor and Derek Ruez in @newformations.bsky.social on "Love and Work." This is a examination and critique of how love as a political affect makes its way into both work and anti-work narratives in complex ways.
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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In geography I build on the work of Natalie Oswin, Suzanne Mills, Lorena Munoz, Nathaniel Lewis, Eleanor Wilkinson, Sophie Lewis, and Rory Rush-Morgan, among others.
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I argue that sexuality and gender identity (and homophobia and transphobia) are concepts that should be more central to economic geography. I develop this argument through Chitty's concept of Sexual Hegemony, research on queer and trans work, and Rao's concept of Homocapitalism.
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First a paper in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on "Queering Economic Geographies" - here I explore the work on political economy, Marxism, and queer and trans theory and the implications of the concepts and arguments made in this work for economic geography. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Oh then I have a lot of recommendations, I'll DM you.
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Well give us some more information Xander, what kinds of podcasts do you like to never listen to now?
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Fwiw I'd find this super interesting.
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When Berlant wrote about cruel optimism this is what she meant probably.