FinGeo supported a series of seven sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2017. The sessions were organised by financial geographers at various career stages and brought together a diverse set of papers dealing with platform finance, FinTech and financialisation with special focus on emerging and low-income economies. An authors-meet-critics session for the new book ‘Money and Finance after the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times’ (edited by Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon and Geoff Mann, Wiley, 2017) saw lively discussions around the roles of financial institutions and regulators in economy and society, and theoretical implications for how we analyse financial crises in historical terms. The final panel on ‘Locating the limits to financialisation’ was attended by Fanny Malinen from Debt Resistance UK, who provided valuable insights on activist work and academic-industry engagement.
There was a FinGeo dinner organised for the sessions convenors. This provided a more informal environment for networking particularly amongst graduate students and early career scholars with senior colleagues in the field.
The full list of sessions supported by FinGeo:
- Platform Finance (1): Geographies of FinTech. Convenors: Chris Muellerleile (Swansea University, UK) and Desiree Fields (The University of Sheffield, UK)
- Platform Finance (2): Placing Platform Capitalism. Convenors: Chris Muellerleile (Swansea University, UK) and Desiree Fields (The University of Sheffield, UK)
- Mortgage markets and the financialization of home in the Global South. Convenor: Marieke Krijnen (Orient-Institut Beirut, Lebanon)
- Financialisation in the Global South (1): Emerging Economies and Regions. Convenors: Gary A. Dymski (University of Leeds, UK) and Ewa Karwowski (Kingston University, UK)
- Financialisation in the Global South (2): Low-Income Economies and Regions. Convenors: Gary A. Dymski (University of Leeds, UK) and Ewa Karwowski (Kingston University, UK)
- Authors meet critics – Money and Finance after the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times (eds. Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon and Geoff Mann, Wiley, 2017). Convenors: Andrew Leyshon (University of Nottingham, UK) and Brett Christophers (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Locating the limits to financialisation. Convenors: Kelly Kay (The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), Amy Horton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) and Vincent Guermond (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
