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Final CALL FOR PAPERS - GCEG - Cologne, Germany, 24th-28th July, 2018

Finance and financialisation in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe

 

***Deadline: Thursday 15^th March 2018!***

 

Session organisers:

• Martin Sokol, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland – [log in to unmask]
• Zoltán Gál, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Economic & Regional Studies (CERS_HAS), Hungary – [log in to unmask]

 

The session is sponsored by the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo)

http://www.fingeo.net/  #FinGeo @fingeonet

 

Call for Papers:

Financialisation is recognised as a major force that is shaping contemporary capitalist societies and economies, as well as being a leading cause of the recent Global Financial Crisis. There is also growing evidence that financialisation plays a crucial role in (re)producing and exacerbating social and spatial inequalities at various scales. Financialisation thus could be seen as one of the key drivers of the dynamics in an unequal world. However, despite the pivotal role financialisation plays in contemporary economies (and the explosion of literature about it), our understanding of this phenomenon remains limited in many aspects. For one, much of the financialisation research has so far focused on the most advanced (and presumably the most financialised) Western capitalist economies. As a result, we know much less about how financialisation unfolds in other contexts and how these different contexts are interlinked with each other and how this reflects patterns of uneven development and/or economic dependency. Financialisation in Central and Eastern Europe represents a significant lacuna in this regard. Yet, the post-socialist context offers a unique opportunity to study financialisation and its social and spatial implications. Indeed, former state-socialist economies were previously built on a completely opposite logic to that of financialisation. The collapse of state-socialist regimes was followed by a dramatic re-organisation of the entire financial infrastructure and significantly shaped by the involvement of West European banking groups. The post-socialist context thus gives us a chance to study financialisation from a different perspective and to reveal its logics, and its implications, in an alternative light.

This session welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that will help to build a picture of financialisation in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe and its implications for Europe and for the global political economy more broadly.

 

The themes include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptual issues and alternative definitions of financialisation
• Theorising financialisation and uneven development
• Dependent and peripheral financialisation
• Financialisation and the European semi-periphery
• Financialisation and economic dependency
• Finance, money and post-socialism
• Financialisation of states in Central and Eastern Europe
• Financialisation of households in post-socialism
• Financialisation of banks and its implications for Eastern Europe
• Finance-based consumption patterns
• Financialisation of housing and real estate
• Geographies of consumer and mortgage lending
• Debt and indebtedness
• Western banking groups and restructuring of finance in Central and Eastern Europe
• FDI in the financial sector
• East-West financial flows
• Financial risks, instability, and regulation in Central and Eastern Europe
• The implications of EU financial integration policy for Central and Eastern Europe (including Capital Markets Union)
• Financial crisis and its implications for Eastern Europe and beyond
• Responses and alternatives to financialisation
• De-financialisation

 

Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) by 15^th March 2018 directly through the conference website:

https://www.gceg2018.com/nc/call-for-sessions-and-papers/submit-an-abstract.html

(Select ‘Finance and financialisation in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe’ in a drop-down menu of sessions)

 

For any session-related inquiries, please to contact:

Martin Sokol ([log in to unmask]) and Zoltán Gál ([log in to unmask]).

 

Conference registration: https://www.gceg2018.com/nc/registration/registration-form.html

 

Best wishes,

Martin and Zoli

 

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Dr Martin Sokol

Associate Professor

Department of Geography

Trinity College Dublin

Dublin 2, Ireland

Tel.: +353-(0)1-896 2355

Email: [log in to unmask]

Web: https://www.tcd.ie/Geography/staff/MartinSokol.php

Principal Investigator, ERC GEOFIN research: https://www.tcd.ie/Geography/research/gof/GEOFIN.php

Secretary, FinGeo Network: http://www.fingeo.net/