My research

My research concerns the impact of finance and the working of financial markets on the social world. In my previous studies, I have analysed the way financial logics have been historically applied in postsocialist contexts, particularly focusing on China and Eastern Europe. My work has investigated the financialisation of everyday life, examining how finance has restructured social relations and altered existing frameworks of political legitimacy.

I have also examined the emergence of the so-called green and sustainable finance, showing how financial markets have been now heralded as the solution to the double crises of the environment and capitalism. This approach promises to tackle the problem of climate change and environmental degradation while guaranteeing future returns. In doing so, however, it transforms the relationship with the ecological crisis in monetary terms, making the environment an object of investment.

IAS fellowship

For my IAS Fellowship project, I will investigate the development of green fintech platforms, the integration of financial technology to support environmental sustainability goals. I aim to understand how the evolution of green fintech is reshaping our approach to environmental sustainability, examining the interplay between platformization and nature in both Europe and China.

Green or sustainable, fintech is at the forefront of a paradigm shift, promising to integrate environmental concerns into decentralized finance. Yet, the complexities of translating sustainability into data and financial transactions are not well understood, highlighting a need for comprehensive analysis of the political, economic, spatial, and cultural dimensions involved. Situating green fintech platforms at the nexus of financial transactions and everyday life, my research aims to uncover emerging forms of environmental governance, questioning their specificity across different digital and spatial domains.