CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Emilia Roig ENVISIONING A WORLD WITHOUT FINANCIAL MARKETS AND ECONOMIC INJUSTICE
This research project explores the possibility of a money-free world and whether current developments point to an erosion of the global financial system. In our global capitalist system, power is irreducibly linked to economic and financial power, both of which determine access to political, cultural and symbolic power. The global climate, economic, social and political crises are intrinsically linked to a profound redefinition of concepts such as “value”, “worth”, “growth”, “wealth” and “poverty”. While the resolution of these crises will possibility entail the disintegration of our financial and monetary system, the end of oppression will inevitably imply a profound paradigmatic shift around the concept of power, including regarding the role, meaning and materiality of money. Current developments in the realm of financial markets and on the global political stage prefigure the erosion and disruption of our global economic system. Such a disruption could, in fact, lead to the end of the world as we know it. My research will explore the apocalyptic world that would emerge from such a transformation.