Money and Finance After the Crisis Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.

• A multidisciplinary collection of essays that study the geographies of money and finance that have unfolded in the wake of the financial crisis
• Contributions discuss a wide range of contemporary social formations, including the complexities of modern debt-driven financial markets
• Chapters critically explore proliferating forms and spaces of financial power, from the realms of orthodox finance capital to biodiversity conservation
• Contributions demonstrate the centrality of money and finance to contemporary capitalism and its political and cultural economies

Brett Christophers is Professor of Geography at Uppsala University.

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham.

Geoff Mann is Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University.

Series Editors’ Preface vii

Notes on Contributors ix

1 Money and Finance After the Crisis: Taking Critical Stock 1
Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon and Geoff Mann

Part I Financial Imaginaries 41

2 From Time–Space Compression to Spatial Spreads: Situating Nationality in Global Financial Liquidity 43
Dick Bryan, Michael Rafferty and Duncan Wigan

3 Financial Flows: Spatial Imaginaries of Speculative Circulations 69
Paul Langley

4 Making Financial Instability Visible in Space as Well as Time: Towards a More Keynesian Geography 91
Gary A. Dymski

Part II Financial Practices 117

5 Banks in the Frontline: Assembling Space/Time in Financial Warfare 119
Marieke de Goede

6 Undoing Apartheid? From Land Reform to Credit Reform in South Africa 145
Deborah James

Part III Financialization 169

7 Infrastructure’s Contradictions: How Private Finance is Reshaping Cities 171
Phillip O’Neill

8 The Financialization of Nature Conservation? 191
Jessica Dempsey

9 Financialization of Singaporean Banks and the Production of Variegated Financial Capitalism 217
Karen P.Y. Lai and Joseph A. Daniels

Index 245

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