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Book SynopsisMoney 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
Table of ContentsSeries 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
