Michael Goldman (Co-Principal Investigator) / by NIAS Speculative Urbanism Project

Dr. Goldman teaches in Sociology, Global Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Having conducted ten years of research on the World Bank and the twin projects of green neoliberalism and eco-governmentality, he has been working with colleagues over the past decade conducting research in and around Bengaluru/Bangalore. They have been analyzing the making of this global city and the emergent global project of speculative urbanism, with all of its discontents, forces, contradictions, and imaginaries traversing the domains of Wall Street, platforms of expertise on global urbanism, and the many transformed ecologies and communities in and beyond India.