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Michael Goldman

Protrait: Michael Goldman

Associate Professor and McKnight Presidential Fellow
Ph.D. 1994 University of California Santa Cruz
Room 952 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-0051
Email: mgoldman@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Transnational, Political, Environmental, and Development Sociology; Global Cities; Transnational Institutions (international finance, expert networks).

Current Research

Global cities of the South; the making of Bangalore into a world city; “Water for All”/ water privatization policies; in/outsourcing in the Twin Cities.

Selected Publications

"Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the next World City." Forthcoming. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

"Making World Cities," with Wes Longhofer. 2009. Contexts, 8(1, Winter): 32-36.

"How 'Water for All!' Became Hegemonic: The Power of the World Bank and its Transnational Policy Networks." 2007. Special issue on global water policy. Geoforum, 38(5): 786-800.

"Under New Management: Historical Context and Current Challenges at the World Bank." 2007. Special issue on Wolfowitz's bank. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 8(2, Summer):11-25.

"El neoliberalismo verde." 2006. Pp. 185-210 in Las Politicas de la Tierra, edited by A. Guerra and J. F. T. Tortajada. Madrid: Editorial Sistema.

Book Cover: Imperial NatureImperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. 2005. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. Yale UP paperback edition, 2006; India edition, Hyderabad: Orient Longman Press, 2006; Japanese edition, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2008.

"World Bank." 2005. Pp. 765-770 in Encyclopedia of International Development, edited by Tim Forsyth. Oxford and New York: Routledge.

"Tracing the Routes/Roots of World Bank Power." 2005. Special issue on new development policy. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 25(1/2): 10-29.