Tessa Barnow

My PhD project concerns the EU’s government of the sustainable transition and industrial policy. I examine in particular how the EU Taxonomy and the sustainable finance framework subject corporations and investors to the political objective of sustainability and how Important projects of common European interests (IPCEIs) present governmental reconceptualisations of the state/market, public/private, economic/political divides otherwise founding the European economic project.  

My research is ultimately motivated by the interest to rethink corporations and finance for the purpose of the public good. My approach employs the Foucauldian premise that all government comes at a cost and with reference to particular forms of knowledge and truths, including what corporations, finance and the public good might mean. As such my research ambition is to offer a critique of the particularities of contemporary European government of corporations and finance and ideally provide alternative solutions.