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SEA’s podcast, Mergers and Acquisitions demonstrates how anthropological and other perspectives can enhance and complicate understandings of economic life and contemporary events. Mergers and Acquisitions hosts interviews with leading economic anthropologists, provides reflection pieces on economic transformations and problems, and serves as a vehicle for new and established scholars to connect with each other. Recognizing that the best ideas and insights are rarely generated alone, Mergers and Acquisitions offers a collective mind-hive for furthering the study of economic life.

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Episode thumbnail for Imperialist production of solar energy in India: a conversation with Denise Fernandes

June 24, 2026

Imperialist production of solar energy in India: a conversation with Denise Fernandes

<p><strong>Series Summary</strong></p> <p>This series brings together scholars researching the relationship between green finance, and the everyday experiences of violence and solidarity across the world. Green finance, the various models of loans and investments that ostensibly support mitigation and adaptation to climate change, is promoted by international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Bank. However, the abstraction of this language and policies involved obscures the connections to everyday practices of extraction and resistance. This series reinfuses the economics of climate change with people’s histories and agencies. Therefore, anthropologists and adjacent field scholars have a particularly apt skill set for grounding the climate finance discussion in place-based, community-informed explorations across the globe.</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>In the second episode of the series, Denise Fernandes recounts the global process that solidified a top-down and market-driven approach to climate change action. In her analysis of the Rewa Solar Park in India, Denise weaves together the long history of colonialism, the flow of capital, and science and technologies that produce the “free, clean, and green energy.” As a result of these processes, certain spaces, like the Gurh tehsil, become banjaar zameen (barren lands) amenable to megaprojects backed by green loans from the World Bank, in what Denise describes as American energy imperialism. She also brings art into the energy discussion! From Odetta’s interpretation of Woody Guthrie’s “Pastures of Plenty,” to her photographic narrative of invisibilized fracking in Colorado Denise shows her interdisciplinary approach. 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She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her teaching and scholarship focus on renewable energy and fossil fuel landscapes, climate justice, and the reproduction of injustices and inequalities in historically marginalized communities in the Global South. For her Ph.D., she studied the financialization of World Bank-financed solar parks in India. In this work, she investigated the historic narratives and rhetoric that shaped solar decision-making processes during the energy transition in the Global South. She regularly collaborates with artists and journalists to visually portray energy landscapes and the climate crisis, and to enhance the importance of public scholarship within academia.</p> <p><strong>Host</strong></p> <p><img decoding="async" src="https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coyotecatl-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5453" srcset="https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coyotecatl-66x66.jpg 66w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coyotecatl-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl-Contreras is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in Anthropology (UCSB, 2025) and a Master’s in Social Anthropology (El Colegio de Michoacán, 2013). Her work builds on the knowledge of women and Indigenous communities, at the intersection of the (built) environment, feminist political ecology, and anti-coloniality in the Americas. Her work has been featured in peer-reviewed articles and online pieces for broader audiences. She is currently working on her first manuscript “Volcanic Sustainability: Progressive Fossil Capitalism, Violent Energy Transition, and Indigenous Futurities in Mexico.” </p>

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May 22, 2026

Green financing as myth making in Chile: a conversation with Fernando Leiva

<h3>New Series: Grounding the Green Financing</h3> <p><strong>Series Summary</strong><br /> This series brings together scholars researching the relationship between green finance, and the everyday experiences of violence and solidarity across the world. Green finance, understood as various models of loans and investments that ostensibly support mitigation and adaptation to climate change, is promoted by international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Bank. However, the abstraction of this language and policies involved obscures the connections to everyday practices of extraction and resistance. This series reinfuses the economics of climate change with people’s histories and agencies. Therefore, anthropologists and adjacent field scholars have a particularly apt skill set for grounding the climate finance discussion in place-based, community-informed explorations across the globe.</p> <p>&#160;<br /> <strong>Episode Summary</strong><br /> <span style="font-weight: 400;">In the first episode of this quarterly series, Fernando Leiva talks about his </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">mapping of the finance-extractivism-climate-change-energy transition nexus focused on Chile, his country of origin. He identifies four areas of research into green financing as a material and cultural project : 1) the depolitization of climate change, veiling its true causes of this crisis; 2) the impacts of carbonization by dispossession and the concentration of wealth; 3) the further subordination of public policy to de-risking investments; and 4) the financialization of nature itself. Leiva presents his </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">bestiario</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (bestiary) and chronology of financial products as an entry point to analyze the interactions between discourses and power relations in Chile, the birthplace of neoliberalism and other sociopolitical experiments in the last 50 years, and now a leader in the green finance economy. In his view, green finance is also a hegemonic myth project that presents the private sector as the social actor of the future, in an unequal field of cultural creation, against communities betting on collective forms of life. 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He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1998). He is the author of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Developmen</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">t (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(SUNY Press, 2021). For the last decade, his research deploys a Critical Cultural Political Economy Perspective that examines how semiotic and material practices co-constitute reality. He uses this approach to examine</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">newly emerging strategies with which transnational capital aims to expand the frontiers of extractivism and craft the foundations for a new capitalist hegemonic project anchored on “eco-extractivism.”</span></p> <h4>Host</h4> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5453" src="https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coyotecatl-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coyotecatl-66x66.jpg 66w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coyotecatl-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><b>Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl-Contreras</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in Anthropology (UCSB, 2025) and a Master’s in Social Anthropology (El Colegio de Michoacán, 2013). Her work builds on the knowledge of women and Indigenous communities, at the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">intersection of the (built) environment, feminist political ecology, and anti-coloniality in the Americas. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has been featured in peer-reviewed articles and online pieces for broader audiences. She is currently working on her first manuscript “Volcanic Sustainability: Progressive Fossil Capitalism, Violent Energy Transition, and Indigenous Futurities in Mexico.” </span></p> <p>&#160;</p>

Episode thumbnail for Ventures and Virtues of Crypto: A Conversation with Wei Shi Khai and QZ

April 6, 2026

Ventures and Virtues of Crypto: A Conversation with Wei Shi Khai and QZ

<p><strong>Series Summary</strong><br /> The series brings together anthropologists, researchers, and practitioners to examine crypto as it unfolds across time and place. We follow crypto through its successive cycles, from early experimentation and speculative booms to moments of crash. These episodes highlight the value of an ethnographic lens to research the volatile landscape of crypto, showing how ideas of value, risk and trust are continuously reworked across communities, geographies, and cycles.</p> <p><strong>Final Episode</strong><br /> At a moment of industry soul-searching, host Al Lim sits down with venture investors Wei Shi Khai and Qing Ze (QZ) to take stock of crypto from Singapore and Asia. The conversation traces a long arc: from early idealism through hyper-speculation to today&#8217;s pragmatism, asking how practitioners make sense of crypto&#8217;s shifting meanings and futures. Topics range from privacy and censorship resistance to regulation, infrastructure, AI, and Singaporean governing logics, through to the role of anthropologists from an industry perspective. 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Over the past several years, he has been deeply embedded in the space — organizing ETHSingapore, one of Southeast Asia&#8217;s flagship Ethereum events, and contributing to ecosystem development at Gitcoin. Building on this foundation, QZ co-founded the Ethereum Ecosystem Fund, a $30M seed-stage venture fund backed by Ethereum pioneers. This fund invests in early-stage projects that advance decentralized infrastructure and programmable financial systems.</p> <p>&#160;</p> <h5>Series Host</h5> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5418" src="https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-66x66.jpg 66w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-200x200.jpg 200w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-400x400.jpg 400w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-600x600.jpg 600w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-768x768.jpg 768w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-800x800.jpg 800w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://econanthro.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LimHeadshot-1536x1536.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Al Lim is an incoming Presidential Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore Management University and a PhD candidate at Yale University, where his doctoral research examines the social ecology of crypto in Thailand. He has published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Urban Geography, and The Journal of the Siam Society, and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA (summa cum laude) from Yale-NUS College. He also brings several years of professional experience in the crypto and AI sectors, including venture capital and ecosystem development.</p>

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