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Making and unmaking the actually existing hegemonic green transition (2024)
Journal Article
McNelly, A., & Franz, T. (2024). Making and unmaking the actually existing hegemonic green transition. The Extractive Industries and Society, 20, Article 101525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101525

Despite the applaudable reflexivity of transition scholars to include considerations of politics (among other things) in their frameworks, we argue that this is not enough, as the mainstream anglophone debates still suffer a fatal flaw: an inability... Read More about Making and unmaking the actually existing hegemonic green transition.

The "Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus": Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century (2024)
Journal Article
Franz, T., & McNelly, A. (2024). The "Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus": Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 56(4), 1289-1307. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13049

The hegemonic understanding of the green transition will require a massive surge in mineral extraction. We contend that this entails wider, radical shifts in 21st century financialised capitalism. While there has been increasing critical interest in... Read More about The "Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus": Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century.

Development and Well-being: Maritime Infrastructure and Ocean Grabbing on the Colombian Pacific Coast (2023)
Journal Article
Franz, T., Gómez, D., Idrobo, C. J., & Corzo, O. (2024). Development and Well-being: Maritime Infrastructure and Ocean Grabbing on the Colombian Pacific Coast. Latin American Perspectives, 51(3), 232-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X231176782

The Colombian government’s proposal for the Tribugá Port project puts in evidence the juxtaposition of dominant approaches to development and place-based well-being strategies of local communities. The extension of the national maritime infrastructur... Read More about Development and Well-being: Maritime Infrastructure and Ocean Grabbing on the Colombian Pacific Coast.

The ‘Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus’: Towards A Critical Research Agenda Exploring the Scramble for Transition Minerals (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Franz, T., & McNelly, A. (2022). The ‘Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus’: Towards A Critical Research Agenda Exploring the Scramble for Transition Minerals. London

By exploring what we call the ‘Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus’, this article contributes to the academic literature in two distinct ways. Firstly, it contributes to the growing strand of critical literature studying the shift in development par... Read More about The ‘Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus’: Towards A Critical Research Agenda Exploring the Scramble for Transition Minerals.

Neoliberalism, Policy Failures, and the COVID-19 Crisis: Going beyond Hirschman’s Fracasomanía (2023)
Book Chapter
Franz, T. (2023). Neoliberalism, Policy Failures, and the COVID-19 Crisis: Going beyond Hirschman’s Fracasomanía. In A. Mica, M. Pawlak, A. Horolets, & P. Kubicki (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Failure (390-401). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355950-32

This chapter critically engages with the concept of fracasomanía. Coined by the economist Alfred O. Hirschman in the 1960s, fracasomanía denotes a failure complex of Latin America’s policymakers causing them to see everything that preceded as utter f... Read More about Neoliberalism, Policy Failures, and the COVID-19 Crisis: Going beyond Hirschman’s Fracasomanía.

COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses (2021)
Journal Article
Stevano, S., Franz, T., Dafermos, Y., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2021). COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2021.1892606

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple structural flaws of global capitalism. These have been reproduced through the intensification of inequalities and reinforced through policy responses that have failed to protect the most vulnerable from the... Read More about COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses.

Repensando la Gobernanza y el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia: Informalidad, Élites y Diversidad. (2021)
Book Chapter
Montero, S., Franz, T., & Choles, M. (2021). Repensando la Gobernanza y el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia: Informalidad, Élites y Diversidad. In S. Montero (Ed.), Repensando el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia. Universidad de los Andes

Desde mediados del siglo XX, en Colombia se han implementadopolíticas e instrumentos de desarrollo local y regional inspirados en las ideasdominantes de modernización y desarrollo que se impusieron tras la SegundaGuerra Mundial en Europa y en Estados... Read More about Repensando la Gobernanza y el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia: Informalidad, Élites y Diversidad..

Spatial fixes and switching crises in the times of COVID-19: implications for commodity-producing economies in Latin America (2020)
Journal Article
Franz, T. (2021). Spatial fixes and switching crises in the times of COVID-19: implications for commodity-producing economies in Latin America. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1832881

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the vulnerabilities of Latin America’s commodity-producing countries and is exacerbating their structurally weak position in global financial capitalism. Due to a high dependency on incomes from commodity exports, a... Read More about Spatial fixes and switching crises in the times of COVID-19: implications for commodity-producing economies in Latin America.

Covid-19 and economic development in Latin America (2020)
Digital Artefact
Franz, T. Covid-19 and economic development in Latin America

With the economic impact of Covid-19 shaping up to be immense and inevitable, Latin America desperately needs to reverse the failures of its export-oriented development model