Ganga Jey Aratnam is an expert for social medicine and sociology at the University of Basel and has also studied economics and philosophy. He has published on the influence of wealth and power in Switzerland and has conducted research into international commodity trading, in particular the links between Zambia’s copper mines and the global financial center of Zug.
How are global capital and world politics linked under the smoke screen of attempts to “improve” the world? What role do exclusive meetings of the rich and powerful such as the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos play in this? On the occasion of Rimini Protokoll’s production Weltzustand Davos (State 4), which he helped shape as one of five “experts of the everyday”, the sociologist Ganga Jey Aratnam examines the history, background, and networks of the global players’ WEF. A contribution in excerpts. To article...
