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CALL FOR PAPERS
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 28-31 August 2007
SPACES OF FINANCIALIZATION
Convenors: Dr Shaun French (University of Nottingham, UK) and Dr Sarah Hall (Loughborough University, UK)
Sponsorship: Economic Geography Research Group
There is a growing consensus amongst critical social scientists that the economies and societies of Britain and the United States are becoming increasingly beholden to the logics of finance. Concerns of this kind are certainly not new, with their lineage being traceable as least as far back as the ground breaking work of David Harvey. What is new is the way in which such concerns have recently coalesced around the concept of financialization. Mobilised as both a general descriptor of the growing significance of capital markets on everyday life, and as a sophisticated theoretical apparatus for explaining the changing behaviour and rationalities of firms and households, the concept of financialization is fast gaining intellectual traction in an array of disciplines. However, economic geographers have largely been absent from such debates. In beginning to address this lacuna, this session calls for papers that seek to initiate dialogue between geography and the growing body of empirical work on, and theories of financialization.
Potential topics for papers might include, but are not limited to:
- Financialization as spatial phenomena
- Geographies and spatialities of financialization
- Interconnections and disconnections between work on geographies of money and finance, and that of financialization
- Critical geographical engagement with financialization as concept and theory
- A geographical politics of financialization
Please send titles and abstracts (max 200 words) to Sarah Hall ([log in to unmask]) by 31st JANUARY 2007.
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Dr. Shaun French
School of Geography
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 0115 8466072
Fax: 0115 9515249
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