- Samman, A. (2023). The void in finance. Finance and Society, 9(1), pp. 58–60. doi:10.2218/finsoc.8094.
- Samman, A. and Sgambati, S. (2023). Financial eschatology and the libidinal economy of leverage. Theory, Culture & Society, 40(3), pp. 103–121. doi:10.1177/02632764211070805.
- Samman, A. and Konings, M. (2023). Edges of the financial imagination. Finance and Society, 9(1), pp. 54–57. doi:10.2218/finsoc.8093.
- Samman, A., Boy, N., Coombs, N., Hager, S., Hayes, A., Rosamond, E. … Westermeier, C. (2022). After the boom: Finance and society studies in the 2020s and beyond. Finance and Society, 8(2), pp. 93–109. doi:10.2218/finsoc.7761.
- Samman, A. and Palan, R. (2022). Systemic unreason: A psychic history of states and corporations. Global Society, 37(3), pp. 336–353. doi:10.1080/13600826.2022.2113040.
- Samman, A. (2022). Eternal return on capital: nihilistic repetition in the asset economy. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 23(1), pp. 165–181. doi:10.1080/1600910x.2020.1763416.
- Samman, A. (2020). Strange loops: Producing history in financial times. Finance and Society, 6(2), pp. 148–56. doi:10.2218/finsoc.v6i2.5276.
- Samman, A. (2016). Conjuring the spirit of multilateralism: Histories of crisis management during the ‘great credit crash’. Review of International Studies, 42(2), pp. 227–246. doi:10.1017/S0260210515000133.
- Samman, A. (2016). The specter of capital. Journal of Cultural Economy, 9(1), pp. 108–114. doi:10.1080/17530350.2015.1100650.
- Samman, A. (2015). Crisis theory and the historical imagination. Review of International Political Economy, 22(5), pp. 966–995. doi:10.1080/09692290.2015.1011682.
- Samman, A., Coombs, N, and Cameron, A, (2015). For a post-disciplinary study of finance and society. Finance and Society, 1(1), pp. 1–5. doi:10.2218/finsoc.v1i1.1366.
- Samman, A. (2015). Money's other worlds. Finance and Society, 1(2), pp. 23–26. doi:10.2218/finsoc.v1i2.1382.
- Samman, A. (2014). Making financial history: The crisis of 2008 and the return of the past. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 42(2), pp. 309–330. doi:10.1177/0305829813511866.
- Samman, A. (2012). The 1930s as black mirror: Visions of historical repetition in the global financial press, 2007-2009. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(2), pp. 213–229. doi:10.1080/17530350.2012.660792.
- Samman, A. (2011). The idea of crisis. Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, 4, pp. 4–9.
- Samman, A. (2011). History in finance and fiction in history. economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter, 12(3), pp. 26–34.
- Samman, A. (2008). Imagining East Asia. Naked Punch Review, 10, pp. 74–81.
Dr Amin Samman
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Overview
My research focuses on the temporal, historical, and existential aspects of contemporary capitalism, with an emphasis on how these relate to the workings of money, debt, and finance. I am the author of History in Financial Times (Stanford University Press, 2019) and numerous articles in journals of political economy, social theory, economic sociology, and cultural studies.
I am actively involved in fostering cutting-edge research in the field of 'finance and society' studies. I am co-founder and lead editor of the journal, Finance and Society, as well as co-founder and chair of the Finance and Society Network, which provides a platform for collaboration between scholars from across the social sciences and humanities with those working on the fringes of conventional academia. I am also co-Director of the City Political Economy Research Centre.
Between 2022 and 2024, I will be taking up a Visiting Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg (Project title: 'Nihilism and the ends of finance') and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (Project title: 'Economies of desire in the twenty-first century').
Qualifications
- PhD in International Political Economy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2008 – 2012
- MSc in Politics of the World Economy, London School of Economics, United Kingdom, 2005 – 2006
- BSc in Economics, University College London, United Kingdom, 2002 – 2005
Teaching
Dr Samman teaches a core undergraduate module in international political economy, as well as advanced electives in critical theory and cultural economy.
Research
Past research
Crisis theory
Financial history and crisis
Historical theory and method
Philosophy of time and history
History and politics of IPE theory
Constructivist and cultural political economy approaches
Current research
Economic theology
History of economic thought
Libidinal political economy
Critical theory and philosophy of technology
Religion, magic, and the occult
Areas for supervision
Any of the above
Publications
Publications by category
Books (2)
- Samman, A. and Gammon, E. (Eds.), (2023). Clickbait Capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-6816-0.
- Samman, A. (2019). History in Financial Times. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-0945-7.
Chapters (6)
- Samman, A. (2024). Void. In Tygstrup, F., Huber, N.A., Jespersen, E.S.B., Frantzen, M.K. and Andreasen, T. (Eds.), Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary London: Goldsmiths University Press.
- Samman, A. (2023). The desire called libidinal economy. In Samman, A. and Gammon, E. (Eds.), Clickbait Capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty- First Century (pp. 1–20). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-6816-0.
- Samman, A. and Sgambati, S. (2023). Financialising the eschaton. In Samman, A. and Gammon, E. (Eds.), Clickbait Capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty- First Century (pp. 191–208). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-6816-0.
- Samman, A. (2023). Click here to end capitalism. In Samman, A. and Gammon, E. (Eds.), Clickbait Capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 230–233). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-6816-0.
- Samman, A. and Seabrooke, L. (2016). International Political Economy. In Guillaume, X. and Bilgin, P. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology (pp. 46–59). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-73225-3.
- Samman, A. (2010). The 1930s all over again? In Chan, C., McCusker, J. and Hartman, S. (Eds.), And the Seasons, They Go Round and Round (pp. 101–116). Berlin: 0047 Press. ISBN 978-82-92960-03-5.
Internet publications (2)
- Samman, A., Schwarz, E., Cornea, C., Dunn, M., Heffernan, T., Kirsch, R. … Mendoza, L. (2023). Death and apocalypse in the digital megamachine. CAPAS: Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies.
- Samman, A. (2015). Money's other worlds: On the magical underpinnings of our ostensibly rational economies. Stanford University Press Blog.
Journal articles (17)
Professional activities
Editorial activity (4)
- Finance and Society, Founding editor, 2015 – present.
- Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Editor, 2010 – 2014.
- Under/Current Magazine, Writing editor, 2008 – 2010.
- Naked Punch: The Engaged Review of Contemporary Art and Thought, Assistant editor, 2007 – 2009.
Other
- Founder and chair, Finance and Society Network (Jan 2018 – present).