FinGeo Early Career Researchers monthly coffee meeting: Mon 4th April (4 pm BST, London) The ECR Monthly coffee meeting is a one-hour online open event and the main goal is to bring together early-career researchers across the FinGeo community to give them inspiration about academic and professional careers. It gives participants the opportunity to ask […]

We’re organizing a workshop on ‘Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?’ at the Development Studies Association, which will take place virtually this year between 6-8 July (https://www.devstud.org.uk/conference/conference-2022/programme/#11279). The workshop will explore the current and future role of African and Latin American financial centres in just and sustainable development. […]

This paper proposes an investigation of blockchain technologies – understood as money infrastructures – from the point of view of the ecologies that these infrastructures produce. In fact, infrastructures scholar Susan Leigh Star described infrastructures as fundamentally ecological, i.e. fluid and highly power-fraught technological apparatuses (Star 1995; Coeckelbergh 2013). The concept of ecology also highlights […]

In this talk, I present findings from my dissertation in which I studied the implementation of a social policy tool called the Social Impact Bond (SIB), which was implemented in youth homelessness projects in the UK. SIBs are payment-by-results-based financial instruments that aim to render the financing and implementation of socially-oriented projects more efficient by […]

With financial geographies as one of the core themes of the forthcoming Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (7-10 June 2022), we invite everyone to submit their paper abstracts and to register. Early bird registration is extended to 25 February and the abstract submission deadline is on 11 February. You can submit to one […]

Monthly Drink event is a one-hour event being hosted online by FinGeo. It brings together early career researchers and PhD students, across finance, geography, and the wider academic community. This is a unique opportunity for all attendees at different stages of their careers to engage with one another in an online supportive event, have an […]

FinGeo’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be Wednesday 8th December 2021 at 12noon GMT (London) via Zoom, 12.00-13.30 GMT (07.00-08.30 EST / 20.00-21.30 HKT). You must be registered to attend. If you would like to attend, please register via this link: Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtfu2gpjIsHNGWpX57RI2MAp4qgIsF9V3p After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing […]

Monthly coffee/tea event – is a one-hour event being hosted online by FinGeo. It brings together early career researchers and PhD students, across finance, geography, and the wider academic community. This is a unique opportunity for all attendees at different stages of their careers to engage with one another in an online supportive event, have an opportunity […]

13 December 2021 16.00-17.30 UK GMT (online) As care needs rise, models of financial investment in the social care sector are proliferating, and care work, already a major source of employment, is seen as key to future jobs. However, poor pay and conditions are generating exploitation and labour shortages in many places. The COVID-19 pandemic […]

A full-day symposium on the occasion of the publication of Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development (Routledge, 2021) by Patrice Derrington, Holliday Associate Professor and Director of Real Estate Development Program at Columbia GSAPP. Fall 2021 public programming will be a virtual/in-person hybrid. Columbia affiliates holding a green pass may […]

Register for free here This paper outlines the ways in which sovereign regulatory authorities are responding to the challenge of FinTech’s novel platform ecologies. For some western financial regulators FinTech has Goldilocks-like qualities, as the centrality of data to platform finance business models means that they may be better suited to providing consistent, up-to-date and […]

Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of impoverished households embroiled in a vicious cycle of displaced survival marked by overindebtedness, evictions and homelessness. To deconstruct this reality, I view low-income rental housing as a historical social relation in that it is […]