Book Launch & Meet-the-Authors: Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance – edited by Ron Martin and Jane Pollard – Sponsored by the RSA Research Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). Time: Tuesday 06/06/2017 1430 – 1600 Chair: Martin Sokol – Trinity College Dublin Authors/Panellists: Ron Martin – University of Cambridge, UK (Co-Editor) Dariusz Wójcik – […]
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What is Financialization?
– Manuel B. Aalbers –Many financial geographers use the term “financialization”. But what is financialization? It clearly has to do with finance and the “-ation” part suggests that it is not a state or end result but an action, something that is made. So let’s start by looking at the meaning of “finance”. The term […]
Continue readingPost-Doctoral Researcher (x2) – Financial Geography – School of Geography, Trinity College Dublin (Deadline: 26 April 2017)
Led by Dr Martin Sokol, GEOFIN is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (1.8m EUR). This 5-year project examines the way in which Western banks conquered Eastern Europe following the collapse of communism. East-Central Europe is being used as a laboratory to understand how finance penetrates every nook and cranny of post-communist […]
Continue readingClark, Gordon L. – Professor and Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University
Gordon L Clark FBA DSc is Professor and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University with joint appointments in the Saïd Business School and the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall, is the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguishing Visiting Professor in the […]
Continue reading2017/12/06 – 2017/12/08 – Singapore – 4th FinGeo Global Seminar – Conference on Global Production
The 4th FinGeo Global Seminar will be held at the National University of Singapore as part of the Conference on Global Production, 6-8 December 2017. There will be a series of paper sessions and panel discussion with the overarching theme of “Global financial networks”. Please find an overview of the programme here. We welcome proposals […]
Continue readingBook Review – Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism [Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus], by Wolfgang Streeck, Berlin: Suhrkamp, extend-ed edition, 2015
– Sabine Dörry – The conceptualisation of the phenomenon of financialisation has been firmly rooted in geographical research for years. In “Buying Time” Wolfgang Streeck presents an amazingly coherent foundation for the empirical findings of our time in which the process of finan-cialisation is a core component. His sharp, critical social analysis, primarily of the […]
Continue readingResearch Associate – Finance and Geography – School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University (Deadline: 5 April 2017)
We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on the project ‘Cities in Global Financial Networks: Financial and Business Services and Development in the 21st Century’, funded by the European Research Council. CityNet is a frontier research project investigating the nature and dynamics of Financial and Business Services and their implications for the […]
Continue readingPhD Researcher (Fully Funded) – Financial Geography – Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) (Deadline: 10 April 2017)
The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) invites highly qualified and motivated applicants for a fully funded PhD position within the framework of the FINWEBS project, co-funded by the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). Closing date for applications: 10 April 2017. Students graduating over the summer 2017 […]
Continue reading2017/09/04 – 2017/09/06 – Brussels, Belgium – The 3rd FinGeo Global Seminar “Financial Geographies of Europe”
The 3rd FinGeo Global Seminar was organised as part of EUGEO’s 6th Congress on the Geography of Europe in Brussels on 4-6 September 2017. A series of thematic sessions were held on the topic “Financial geographies of Europe” chaired by Manuel Aalbers and David Bassens. These sessions were sponsored by the FINGEO RSA network and […]
Continue reading2017/04/04 – Cambridge, USA – FinGeo AGM 2017
Join us for the historic first-ever Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). We will be discussing achievements and future plans of the Network. Please register here.Chair: Professor Dariusz Wojcik (Univerisity of Oxford)Open to all FinGeo members. (To join FinGeo, please email FinGeo Secretary – sokolm@tcd.ie)Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 […]
Continue reading2016/08/21 – Beijing, China – International Geographical Congress 2016 in Beijing and the 1st FinGeo Global Seminar
by Karen Lai The Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) had a particularly successful series of sessions which also officially launched our research network. The newly elected FinGeo executive committee also held its first committee meeting within the School of Geography, Beijing Normal University. All in all, a very productive and enjoyable week with colleagues and […]
Continue reading2015/08/19 – Oxford, UK – Launch of Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) at the 4th GCEG
At the Museum of Natural History, Oxford Q&A at the end of paper session on ‘Financialisation of everyday life’. A key development was the official launch of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) with a special panel to highlight key research themes and directions for the new research network and a broader discussion with […]
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