Dear all,

We are still looking for a couple of papers to complete the session. Apologies for cross postings and please forward as appropriate.

Please note the extension of the AAG deadline to 14^th November.

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Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013

Geographies of Finance and Financialisation in China

Session Organizers: Fenghua Pan (Beijing Normal University), Daniel Brooker (Peking University)

Financialisation describes the growing influence of financial markets over economy, society and polity. Since “financialisation is a profoundly spatial phenomenon” (French et al., 2011), it is becoming increasingly important to understand processes of financialisation at a number of scales and via multiple geographical contexts. From the scale of the global financial crisis and globalisation, through the role of finance in regional development, to the impacts of financial systems on individual and households. Although there is an emerging body of research on financialisation it has generally focused on experiences in Europe and North America. The session aims to provide an opportunity for connections between geographies of finance and financialisation and China, bringing together scholars to discuss emerging trends, issues and future research agendas.

As the largest developing and transition economy, China has been reforming its financial system since the late 1970s, and speeded its pace after the accession into the WTO in 2001. Thus, the opening of China’s finance industry and its integration with the global economy is producing a nascent geography of finance and financialisation with outcomes evident at different geographical scales. From the global perspective, as an emerging power in the global capital market, how does China rise resonate with the global financial system? Will some Chinese cities, like Beijing or Shanghai, become “world class” financial centers? China has is a major outward investor in varied industries as well as in capital markets, and many Chinese firms started raising money from the global capital market several years ago. What will be the influence of these processes of financialisation in and outside China? How will financialisation interact with existing inequalities in China and the possible consequences for development at multiple scales?

Potential topics for papers might include, but are not limited to:

Ÿ Globalisation and financial crisis;

Ÿ Emerging financial centers in China;

Ÿ Geography of private equity and venture capital;

Ÿ Stock market and overseas listing;

Ÿ Financialisation of local and region development;

Ÿ Global financial production and value chains;

Ÿ Off-shoring in financial services;

Ÿ Spatial patterns of financial institutions in China.

Please send abstracts of approximately 300 words to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] (incl. title of your proposed paper, names/affiliation of author/s). Accepted submissions will be contacted and expected to register and submit their abstracts online at the AAG website by the new deadline, November 12^th 2012.

Many thanks,

Fenghua Pan and Daniel Brooker

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Dr. Daniel Brooker

Department of Urban and Economic Geography

College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Peking University
Beijing 100871, P.R. China
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