UC Berkeley Geography Colloquium

In the age of globalization, cross-border economic processes are often treated as placeless, ubiquitous flows making nation-states and borders increasingly obsolete. Potts’s work shows, in contrast, how transnational economic relations are inscribed in concrete and geographically specific legal and institutional practices and that states remain central to producing and governing this activity. The bulk of their work combines detailed analyses of technical economic and legal processes with extensive historical and geopolitical contextualization to show how the perpetuation of North-South economic inequalities is shaped by the micro-operations of contracts, financial transactions, and law.

Speaker: Shaina Potts, UC Los Angeles