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***with apologies for cross-posting*** The 5th Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) Reykjavik, Iceland, 11-14 June 2013 https://conference.hi.is/ngm2013/ We are currently welcoming submissions for the following session. Please follow the link at the bottom of this notice to submit an abstract. Placing the Global Financial Crisis What are the interscalar repercussions of the global financial crisis? This session questions oft-repeated imaginaries of global capitalism as being somehow “up there” and seeks to flesh out such disembodied framings with an understanding of particular places as key, ‘actually existing’ sites in the ongoing production and reproduction of the global political-economy. We welcome papers that focus on how specific places both shape and are shaped by the global political economy in light of the 2008-2010 crisis and its ongoing cumulative consequences. We are particularly interested in papers that approach the crisis with an awareness of relational connections and interscalar relationships. While much research has focused on the uneven development produced by financial flows, this session aims to explore how the workings of these flows, in return, pivot on interactions with local actors, places, governance, and social relationships. Some topics that could be addressed by papers in this session include, but are not limited to: - Housing finance and foreclosure crises - Austerity measures and social movements - Post-crisis regulatory landscapes - The policy mobility of austerity vis-à-vis the policy immobility of alternative recovery options - The state as a site of negotiated responsibilities across multiple scales (to both its citizenry or other territories) - Regional relationships and the framing of post-crisis cooperation and competition - Socioeconomic consequences of the crisis We aim for a comparative lens, either within the papers themselves or across the session as a whole. We welcome both grounded empirical analyses and theoretical arguments. *Session organisers:* CS Ponder, University of British Columbia, Canada contact: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Emily Rosenman, University of British Columbia, Canada contact: [log in to unmask] link for abstract submission: http://conference.hi.is/ngm2013/placing-the-global-financial-crisis/ Deadline for submissions is *31 January 2013.*