Elia Apostolopoulou
Visiting Scholar
Elia Apostolopoulou is a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge and a post-doctoral by-fellow in Churchill College. Elia’s main research interest is the investigation of nature-society relationship in capitalism with a particular emphasis on the political ecology of nature conservation. Elia’s current research is mainly guided by radical geographical research on the neoliberalisation of nature, on the historical-geographic conception of neoliberalism, on uneven development and the capitalist production of nature and space, as well as by Marxist political economy and especially the Marxian theory of value and rent.
Participating Years
2014–2015
After Debt: New Forms of Dependency, Obligation, Risk, and Credit
‘After Debt’ imagines a world beyond debt and pursues it as a research agenda across a broad range of intellectual inquiry. How have economic failures been transformed into personal identities, often dividing those deemed “at risk” from those capable of assuming risk? How might we understand histories of debt within genealogies of the fiscal military nation-state? What alternate meanings of dependency, obligation, risk, and credit have people produced within and against debt regimes, such as those enforced by structural adjustment?