Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian (*1978 in Edmonton Kanada) ist Associate Professor am Department of History des Wellesley College. Seine Spezialgebiete sind deutsche Geschichte, soziale Bewegungen und das Verhältnis zwischen den Industrieländern und dem globalen Süden. Slobodian ist 2019 für sein Werk Globalists (Harvard University Press, 2018) mit dem von der American Historical Association (AHA) verliehenen George Louis Beer Prize ausgezeichnet worden. Quinn Slobodian schreibt über zeitgenössische Politik in der New York Times, dem Guardian und dem New Statesman.
(Stand: Oktober 2023)
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Sonntag, 19.11.2023
Volkshaus
Quinn Slobodian: Crack-Up Capitalism
A nation is not a coherent economic whole, but a hotchpotch of all sorts of different legal spaces and zones, including «city-states, havens, enclaves, free ports, high-tech parks, duty-free districts and innovation hubs». Canadian historian Quinn Slobodian provides a sophisticated introduction to traditional neoliberal thought and its utopias. He asks how capitalism works without democracy and describes how free-market radicals are trying to carve the world up into «micronations» and «private cities». Some super-rich simply buy governments, for example. Or they exploit existing autocratic structures to circumvent the welfare state in special economic zones governed by separate laws that undermine democracy and political freedom.
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author: Quinn Slobodian
moderator: Stefanie Knoll