Dr Vincent Guermond

Small Group Project 2022-23

Raced Finance: The Color of Money at the Financial Frontier

With Ali Bhagat & Ilias Alami

This project aims to examine the racialized features and outcomes of global finance. While contemporary global development agendas continue to portray finance, credit, and entrepreneurship as key strategies for economic growth and poverty reduction, the social realities of these development-led priority areas surrounding racial inequality have been unexplored.

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Biography

Vincent Guermond is an economic and development geographer. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of the geographies of digital economies, finance and debt, climate adaptation, migration and development, and social reproduction. He has published in leading academic journals in geography, development studies, and international political economy, including Antipode, Progress in Human Geography, Geoforum, Environment and Planning A, Review in International Political Economy, World Development, and Development and Change. His new book Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana was published in 2023 with Routledge.

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