Mikael Omstedt

I am a political economist and historical geographer working at the intersections of uneven development, politics of money and finance, and the history of capitalism. I am currently writing a dissertation at the University of British Columbia, Canada which examines the historical geographies of the early US Federal Reserve System through multiple sites across the “American” and “Global” South. While I spend a lot of time in archives, theoretically my work is animated by an ambition to bring conceptions of uneven development formulated at the relative peripheries of capitalism “back” to its ostensible core in order to deconstruct the widespread universalization of US capitalism evident among boosters and critics alike. My work has appeared in Antipode, Geoforum, and Environment & Planning A. 

Contact:
Mikael Omstedt
Politics
m.omstedt[at]berlin.bard.edu