Annie Spencer

Annie Xibos Spencer
Born	(1980-11-28) November 28, 1980 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	writer
Academic background
Education	CUNY Graduate Center (PhD)
Thesis	How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery (2020)
Doctoral advisor	Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Academic work
Discipline	Geographer
Main interests	Addiction, Capitalism, Public Health

Ann Marie (Annie Xibos) Spencer (born November 28, 1980) is an American geographer, writer, and musician.

Early life and education

Annie Xibos Spencer was born in Olney, North Philadelphia and grew up in Venice, Florida. They studied economics and international studies at New College of Florida and Latin American political economy at La Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Their undergraduate honors thesis on the role of the IMF in the Argentine Peso Crisis earned them a job at the World Bank Institute where they worked as a writer and program evaluator while obtaining a MA in International Trade and Investment Policy at George Washington University. Spencer spent two summers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a fellowship where they studied Bengali language and culture at the Independent University of Bangladesh and learned from feminist-Marxist agrarian movement, Naya Krishi Andolon.

Career

Spencer earned their Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center in 2020 in geography. Their doctoral advisor was Ruth Wilson Gilmore and at CUNY they also studied under Neil Smith and David Harvey. Their thesis, entitled How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery was published in 2020. Their first book, How to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism was published by Common Notions on November 19, 2024.

Activism

Spencer was an active participant in Occupy Wall Street and a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and STRIKE Debt. Spencer has worked in mutual-aid harm reduction and organized on the opioid epidemic and against state abandonment of people who use drugs in Maine.

Bibliography

• Spencer, Annie Xibos (2024). How to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism. Common Notions. ISBN 9781945335198.

Articles, lectures and interviews

• Spencer, A. 2024. Chapter in Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Eds. T. Andreasen, E. Brogaard, M. Frantzen, N. Huber and F. Tygstrup. Goldsmiths Press.