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Call for Papers: AAG 2012, New York, 24th – 28th February:
Geographies of Financialization
Session Organizers: Susan Christopherson (Cornell University) and Jane Pollard (Newcastle University, UK).
Processes of financialisation have attracted growing academic, political and popular attention, most recently in the wake of the US sub-prime crisis and its evolving and uneven material, political and social repercussions. Commentators from diverse theoretical standpoints have pointed to the deepening social and spatial reach of financializing rationalities and practices that are re-shaping performance metrics for firms and corporations, including non-financial firms in manufacturing and energy. Other work on the role of financialisation in everyday life has explored how financial relations seep into parts of life (the reproduction of labour) and sites of life (the household) that were once held to be more or less private and beyond the direct reach of capitalist financial calculation.
This session of paper presentations responds to calls for (i) more complex, fine grained geographies of financialization that (ii) explore the nature, extent and material and political effects of financialisation beyond the oft-researched sites of international financial centres and financial institutions.
We therefore welcome paper submissions addressing (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics:
· Financializing the firm/production network
· Financializing the city
· Financializing households
· Financializing local and regional development
· Financializing social reproduction
· Fianncializing labour
· Financializing the environment
· Financializing governance
Abstracts of 250 words (maximum) should be submitted to Susan Christopherson ([log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) and Jane Pollard ([log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) by September 14th 2011.
Many thanks,
Jane
Jane Pollard
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
(44)(0)191 222 7691 (CURDS General Office)
(44)(0)191 222 5876 (direct line)
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/j.s.pollard
See my latest book 'Postcolonial Economies' at:
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4398