Finance can unwittingly create new political possibilities for marginalized people

Evidence

My framing aims to illuminate conceptually broader circuits of power that have not yet been adequately studied—most vitally, the capacity of finance not only to cleave, fragment, and oppress but also to generate connections among marginalized dwellers of speculative communities and, in doing so, to unwittingly afford new political possibilities. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the dominant critical-finance assumption that financialization only fragments and oppresses; pairs usefully with James Scott’s ideas about unintended effects. — connects to: Finance can unwittingly generate political connections among marginalized people.; Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 98; Finance is socially and politically generative, not merely economically exploitative — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 22 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Finance can unwittingly generate political connections among marginalized people. #corroborates (0.95)
• Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life #expands (0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98
• Finance is socially and politically generative, not merely economically exploitative #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 22
• Finance’s politics includes generative vernaculars not just destruction #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 406
• Finance produces its own imagined communities rather than merely colonizing existing ones #expands (0.75)
• Financialized capitalism productively generates new shared communities rather than merely destroying them #expands (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98