Michael Goldman

he/him

mgoldman@umn.edu

Sociology

1070 Social Sciences Building

267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Sociology

Global Studies

Affiliate Faculty ,

Geography, Environment & Society

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Sociology, University of California, 1994
MA: Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1990
B.S: History and Journalism, Northwestern University, 1982

Specialties

Transnational, Political Economic and Urban Sociology
Expert Networks of Finance, Development, Knowledge, and Power

Publications

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Publications

2024. Michael Goldman, Nancy Peluso, and Wendy Wolford. The Social Lives of Land. Cornell University Press.
2024. Michael Goldman, Vinay Gidwani, and Carol Upadhya. Living the Speculative City: Bengaluru as Urban Future. University of Minnesota Press.
2021. Michael Goldman. "Speculative Urbanism and the Urban-Financial Conjuncture: Interrogating the Afterlives of the Financial Crisis." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55(2). Advance online version in 2021. Lead article in the Special Issue, "Speculative Urbanism and the Everyday in Asian Cities," Spring 2023.
2021. Michael Goldman and Devika Narayan. "Through the Optics of Finance: Speculative Urbanism and the Transformation of Markets." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45(2):209-229. Awarded best article of 2021 on urbanization in IJURR.
2020. Michael Goldman. "Dispossession by Financialzation: The Making of a Land Market and the End(s) of Rurality." Journal of Peasant Studies 47(6):1251-1277.
2019. Michael Goldman and Devika Narayan. "Water Crisis through the Analytic of Urban Transformation: An Analysis of Bangalore's Hydrosocial Regimes." Water International 44(2):95-114.
2017. Vinay Gidwani, Michael Goldman, and Carol Upadhya. "Problem Statement." Introductory article in "Urban Transformation in Bangalore," Special Issue of Seminar, New Delhi #694.
2015. Eric Sheppard, Michael Goldman, et al. "Introduction: Urban Revolutions in the Age of Global Urbanism." Urban Studies 52(11):1947-1961.
2015. MIchael Goldman. "With the Declining Significance of Labor, Who's Producing Our Global Cities?" International Labor and Working-Class History 87:137-164.
2011. Michael Goldman. "Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(3):555-581.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Adjunct Professor: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India. 2016 -
co-editor: new book series on Land with Cornell University Press: New Perspectives in Territory, Development and Environment.
In January 2016, awarded the Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Chair Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India: "Recognition of an outstanding social scientist with the reputation of not only enriching social sciences with new ideas but also facilitating social and economic change through scholarly work so as to create a more enlightened, egalitarian and productive society".
senior editor: the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

Research

: The making of global cities (including Bengaluru, India).
: Provincializing global urbanism.
: Financialization of the city.
: Urban ‘spaces of hope’.
Twin Cities housing justice and the changing role of the corporate landlord

Awards

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Awards

McKnight Presidential Fellow, 2006 - 2008
CLA Teaching Award, 2012 - 2013
Imperial Nature
Political Economy of World Systems
American Sociological Association
Distinguished Book Award

Courses

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Courses

Soc 8090 - Topics: Finance, Space, and Power
GLOS 3900 - Ways of Knowing
Soc 3417 - Global Institutions of Power: WB, IMT, WTO
Soc 4321 - Globalize This! Understanding Globalization through Sociology
Soc 8790 - Adv. Topics in Theory: Contemporary
GLOS 3145 - Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies
Soc 4311 - Race, Class & Politics of Nature
Soc 4090 - Social Change and the Global City
GLOS 3981W - Major Project Seminar
Soc 4966W - Major Project Seminar
FSEM 1905 - Making of Global Cities
Soc 8290 - Topics: Global Cities
GLOS 3550V - Supervised Research Paper
Soc 8890 - Advanced Research Methods: Studying Power Transnationaly