CALL FOR PAPERS
1st FinGeo Global Conference 2019: “Global Financial Shift? Mapping a Financialized World in Transformation” Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, September 15-18, 2019
Title of session: Financial Centres across Africa, Middle East and Beyond: Emergence and Development
Co-organisers: Elizabeth Cobbett (University of East Anglia) and Nassar Alnassar (University of East Anglia)
Keywords: Africa; Middle East; Emerging powers; Finance; Flows; Cities; Hubs; Gateways
This session invites participants researching on financial clustering, urbanisation of financial centres, new financial zones, hubs and gateways across Africa and the Middle East. Timbuktu, a city in the modern West African country of Mali, was an important financial centre for the gold, salt, cotton and slave trades from the 10th to the 17th centuries. Along with Babylon, Constantinople, and Marrakech, this pre-colonial city was a vital node in a medieval world of trade and finance, linking traders to the Levant through Islamic trade routes and to the Mediterranean world via the Maghreb. As with this economic history, contemporary processes of financial clustering, construction of financial centres, development of financial zones across these same regions – sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for instance in Lagos, Casablanca, Qatar, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Nairobi – remain largely unexamined in current scholarship. So far, review of emerging financial centres in these regions discloses new regional financial geography affecting global finance and capitalism. These processes will not only affect these territories but shape transnational financial networks as dometic markets integrate more deeply into global flows. Yet, while international financial centres (IFCs) develop recognisable shared characteristics required to partake in the global networking of global capital, each of these new and developing financial centres/zones/hubs/gateways is also a distinctive product of national and local governance, postcolonial contexts, geographies, histories, and discrete cultures. Accordingly, we invite scholars researching the development of nascent financial centres in SSA and MENA regions to partake in this session.
Step 1: please send abstract of 200 words Elizabeth Cobbett [log in to unmask] and Nassar Alnassar [log in to unmask] by 22 April 2019
Step 2: Once we have confirmed all presentations in this session, you will be required to finish the online submission via the conference website by 30 April 2019.
Travel Grants
With the generous sponsorship from the journal EPA: Economy & Space, the Organizing Committee of the 1st FinGeo Global Conference will provide travel grants for 6 early career researchers (graduate students, and young scholars with less than 5years post PhD) attending the conference, with preference for those travelling from lower-income countries. The travel grant will be 250-750 US dollars for each applicant. The winners of the travel grant will also be invited to join the youth forum of this conference.
Early career researchers from all over the world are welcome to apply the travel grant. Please send your full application to [log in to unmask] not later than March 31, 2019. Please indicate in the subject line of the email with “Travel grant application”. Late applications will not be considered.
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