Jesse goldstein
Jesse is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He serves as the Associate Director of VCU’s Humanities Research Center (HRC), and Director of the HRC’s Environmental Humanities Lab. His work explores various ways that creativity is economized by colonial and capitalist relations, from enclosure to entrepreneurship.
Select publications and media:
- Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism (MIT Press)
- with Victor Chen, The Theatre of Entrepreneurship: Learning to Perform the Speculative Self in University Entrepreneurship Programs (Social Problems)
- with Elizabeth Johsnon, Biomimicry: New natures, New Enclosures (Theory, Culture & Society)
- with Alycia Sellie et al, Interference Archive: A Free Space for Social Movement Culture (Archival Science)
- Terra Economica: Waste and the production of enclosed nature (Antipode)
- with SpaceTime Research Collective, To What Will We Resort When Capitalism Is Over? (Human Geography)
Billion Worlds Lab 