Overview

Research in this theme explores the uneven geographies of finance, how it is organized, institutionalised and governed as well as how it creates, assembles and distributes assets, liabilities and risk. Using a range of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches, work in this area examines the growing and uneven power of finance and its constitutive significance for the geographies of economic, social, political and cultural life.

• Geographies of debt and precarity
• Uneven geographies of financialisation 
• Financialising the state 
• Funding and financing of urban and regional development 
• Evolution and change in financial systems, structures and institutions 
• Global production networks and foreign direct investment 
• Alternative financial institutions, sources and forms of value 

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