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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Hannes Gerhardt is a professor of human geography at the University of West Georgia, specializing in political and economic geography.

A recurring theme in his work is the “geographical imaginary”  that is, the ways we imagine places and spatial interactions to be, and how these imaginings shape important decision-making. 

Recently, his research focus has been on the impact of digital technologies on work and ideas of property; the intersection of “value” and money; and pathways to establishing non-capitalist forms of economic production – the latter of which is the subject of a book he is currently writing.

Further details:
University of West Georgia biography
ResearchGate

EPISODE RESOURCES

The World Happiness Report
Sustainable Development Solutions Network

The Happy Planet Index
New Economics Foundation

Commodity Fetishism
Oxford Reference

Daniel Susskind: ‘Automation of jobs is one of the greatest questions of our time’
by Ian Tucker
The Guardian

Dependence and precarity in the platform economy
by Juliet B. Schor et al.
Theory and Society, Volume 49, pages 833–861

The digital commons
Wikipedia

What is Universal Basic Income?
The Stanford Basic Income Lab

What is free software and why is it so important for society?
The Free Software Movement

The General Public License
Wikipedia

Open Licensing with Creative Commons: What is Creative Commons?
University of Rhode Island

What is a blockchain? Is it hype?
by Shira Ovide
The New York Times

Bitcoin explained and made simple (video)
The Guardian

Case Study: Sensorica
The Commons Transition Primer

Using cryptocurrency to fight cryptofishing
by Emma Bryce
Hakai Magazine

A Guide to Circles, the Project Bringing UBI and FOMO to Ethereum’s xDai Sidechain
by Brady Dale
Yahoo! Finance

Functions of Money
CliffsNotes

Facebook’s rebranded cryptocurrency Diem is a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing,’ Germany’s finance minister says
by Shalini Nagarajan
Business Insider

Smappee’s SolarCoin scheme: Firms are testing blockchain tech with energy generation
by Joon Ian Wong
Quartz

These High-Tech Crusaders Are Fighting to Save the Rainforest
by Marianne Lehnis
BREAKERMAG

The Challenge of Building a Scalable Postcapitalist Commons: The Limits of FairCoin as a Commons‐Based Cryptocurrency
by Sam Dallyn and Fabian Frenzel
Antipode

Move over, blockchain: Holochain is coming
by Nils Zimmermann
DW

 

MORE BY HANNES GERHARDT

Blockchains: building blocks of a post-capitalist future?
ROAR

Avoiding co-optation of the commons under capitalism (podcast interview)
The Blockchain Socialist

Engaging the Non‐Flat World: Anarchism and the Promise of a Post‐Capitalist Collaborative Commons
Antipode, Volume 52, Issue 3

The divergent scalar strategies of the Greenlandic government and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, in Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic – Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics
by Kristian Søby Kristensen and Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen (eds.)
Routledge

Green peace or oil riot? with Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvøy, in The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time
by Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsbjerg (eds.)
Routledge

Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North
with Philip E. Steinberg and Jeremy Tasch 
I.B. Tauris

Multiple Imperialisms: The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis
Human Geography, Volume 8, Issue 1