Gateway: Financing regions: the global financial crisis and beyond

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Co-ordinated session:

"After the Global Financial Crisis: Cities, Regions, and Sectors in East-Central

Europe and the former USSR"

 

Session organisers:

Adam Swain ([log in to unmask])

Vlad Mykhnenko ([log in to unmask])

Martin Sokol ([log in to unmask])

 

Abstract:

Post-communist countries have been the most affected area of both the core and

emerging market economies by the global financial-economic crisis of 2007-2009.

The crisis has revealed a profound distinction between financially-integrated countries

dependent on the import of capital (mostly in East-Central Europe), and resourcebased

economies in parts of the former Soviet Union which have accumulated capital.

Yet within these two broad groupings, the crisis has had a varied impact on different

regions and sectors. The crisis threatens dominant modes of financial, industrial and

labour market integration at different spatial scales and raises the prospect of

alternative futures.

This session aims to examine several aspects of financial and economic crisis in East-

Central Europe and the former USSR including:

 the uneven economic and social impact of the crisis on national economies,

sectors, cities, and regions

 financialisation, financial integration and finance capital: banking, credit, and debt

as causes of the crisis

 geo-economic and geo-political implications for the EU, wider Europe, and

beyond

 alternatives models of financial and economic futures

 

Please, send your abstract (up to 200 words) to the session organisers by 1st February

2010.

 

Conference website:

http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/future.asp#annual2010