Varieties of Impact Investing

1. The Pursuit of Impact in the Specificities of Place and Time – Philip Balsiger, Daniel Burnier and Noé Kabouche

2. Impact and ‘Impact’: Labelling and Identity in Finance – Marc Brightman and Aneil Tripathy

Part 1: Translating the Impact Label into National and Transnational Contexts

3. Socio-genesis of the Impact Investing World in France – Eve Chiapello and Camille Roth

4. The Regional Development of an International Phenomenon: How the Geneva Financial Field Framed Impact Investing – Noé Kabouche, Philip Balsiger and Daniel Burnier

5. Impact Investing at the Aga Khan Development Network: Origins of Innovative Financing Mechanisms – Farwa Sial and Jessica Sklair

6. Leverage as a Political Tactic: The Case of Social Impact Investing in Britain – Philipp Golka

7. Social Impact Investing in Italy: A Case of Weak Financialization? – Davide Caselli

8. Top-down Plus Bottom-up: Building the Market for Impact Investing in Spain – Lisa Hehenberger and Guillermo Casanovas

Part 2: Enacting Impact in Investment Practices

9. Defining and Implementing ‘Impact’: Negotiating Meanings and Shifting Interpretations – Claudia Campisano

10. Social Impact as a Negotiated and Collective Process – Guillaume Dumont

11. The Social Structures of Impact: A Case Study of French Impact Startups – Vincent Himmer

12. Market Exchange and Power Cornerstones: Local Understandings of Impact Investing in Nigeria – Elena Christodoulou and Shonali Banerjee

13. ‘Low-hanging Mangoes’: On Social Impact Bonds in Colombia – Natalia Gómez Muñoz

14. Blockchain as an ‘Anti-politics Machine’: Web3-based Impact Investing and the Reproduction of Inequalities – Riccardo De Cristano

15. Conclusion – Emily Barman