“…Despite significant changes associated with the increasing prominence of social investment as a rationality of government – particularly in the Anglo-American context, where the ‘productive’ purpose of social spending has long been denigrated, and where much experimentation is occurring – geographers have been relatively slow to respond with research that charts and/or critiques those changes. There is, however, nascent interest in the embedding of private-financial instruments and subjectivities within and through poverty management practices (Rosenman, 2019; Loomis, 2018; Mitchell, 2017; Lake, 2016), and strong interest, more broadly, in the dialectical interaction of states and financial processes (Christophers, 2016; Peck and Whiteside, 2016; Bryant and Spies-Butcher, 2018). For their part, political scientists and policy scholars have compiled a sizeable literature focused specifically on social investment states, in Europe and North America primarily.…”