Dear colleagues,
This call for papers may be of interest to some.
Best wishes,
Martin
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RSA Annual International Conference, Pécs, Hungary 2010
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 resource-based 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.
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Dr Martin Sokol
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44(0) 20 7882 8200 (Dept. office)
Tel: +44(0) 20 7882 8106 (Direct line)
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/sokolm.html
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