FINPLANET

Project overview

Building on the concept of planetary financialization, the FinPlanet research project seeks to describe and analyze how socio-ecological relationships are entangled with financial markets actors, instruments, and capital, and vice versa. It questions the multifaceted effects and outcomes of financial markets’ expansion onto the planet while exploring how socio-ecological relationships redefine the contours and content of finance.

In this perspective, FinPlanet pursues three main scientific aims:

1. To map and explain the fragmentation of geographical studies of financialization,
2. To enhance, validate, and test the concept of “planetary financialization”,
3. To describe, analyze and interpret the dialectic articulation between financial markets and socio-ecological relationships.

FinPlanet integrates three main types of research operations:

1. Production of several state-of-the-arts with different methods, including a systematic literature review frame applied to social sciences;
2. Conceptual and theoretical elaboration based on workshops and brainstorming studios;
3. Empirical case studies research at both national and local levels, in Brazil and France.