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2022/10/25 – The Financialization of the Brazilian Territory: Theoretical and Empirical Aspect
Financial capitalism has undergone profound changes since at least the 1970s, which made finance even more important for all dimensions...
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Oct 24, 20222 min read
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2022/11/10 – The Financial Industry Sets Sights on Institutional Investors: A Relational Approach to
Over the past few decades, pension funds have emerged as major players in global financial markets as the reserves they manage have grown...
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Oct 6, 20222 min read
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2022/05/10 |Alicia Giron| Geographies of Chinese Financial Flows in Africa
The objective of this research is to deepen the relationship between Chinese creditors and companies with African states. The hypothesis...
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Apr 12, 20222 min read
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2022/04/05 |Rachel N. Weber| Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic
5th April 2022, 17.30 BST, 18.30 CEST – Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic How can an unforeseen crisis like...
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Mar 30, 20222 min read
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2022/03/08 |Ludovico Rella| An ecology of Money Infrastructures
This paper proposes an investigation of blockchain technologies – understood as money infrastructures – from the point of view of the...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
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2022/04/12 |Manuel Wirth| Doing Good with Finance? Impact investing and Marketization of the Youth Homelessness in the UK
In this talk, I present findings from my dissertation in which I studied the implementation of a social policy tool called the Social...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
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2021/11/29 – Susan Soederberg “Governing Urban Displacements in Global Capitalism”
Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/11/15 – Radha Upadhyaya “Employing Capital: Patient Capital and Labour Relations in Kenya's Manufacturing Sector
Register for free here Generating decent employment plays a key role in the creation of a new social contract and social cohesion in...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securi
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/10/11 – Madeleine Fairbairn “Farmland investment, environmental uncertainty, and racialized dispossession on the US
Register for free here In recent years, financial institutions have evinced a growing demand for agricultural properties. This...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/09/27 – Rex A. McKenzie “Wealth Chain Property Investment in the hinterland – Evidence from the Merseyside area in the Northwest of England
Register for free here In this paper, we estimate and evaluate the scale and impact of wealth chain investment coming from offshore...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/06/29 – Shenjing He “Loft-living under state-led financialisation: Adaptive reuse o
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Loft-living under state-led financialisation: Adaptive reuse of industrial...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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2021/06/15 – Sarah Hall “The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services This paper analyses the...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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2021/05/04 – Markus Hesse “The Urban Geography of Luxembourg’s Financial Centre”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Open the fortress! When financial centre and urban development collide – the case...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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2021/03/30 – Raquel Rolnik: Post 2008 financialized housing geographies: from above, from below
On the 30th March 2021, 13h-14h BST , Raquel Rolnik (University of Sao Paulo) will present to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series....
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
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2021/03/16 – Vincent Guermond: Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of M
On the 16th March 2021, Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway) presented to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. His talk was entitled :...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
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02-March-21 – Jessie Poon: Geographies of financial regulation: the rise of regulatory capital
On the 2nd March 2021 (11h-12h GMT) Jessie Poon of the University at Buffalo presented “Regulation and Financial Organizational...
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Feb 23, 20212 min read
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2021/02/02 – Shaina Potts (UCLA, USA): Debt in the time of Covid
On the 2nd Feb 2021 Dr. Shaina Potts of UCLA presented the first ever FINGEO virtual seminar, entitled “Debt in the time of Covid”, the...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
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2021 FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series 1 (Feb – Mar)
Please register on the RSA website: https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/fingeo-2021/ Coming up in 2021: FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series ...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
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2019/05/27 – Brisbane, AUS – The 7th FinGeo Seminar, Financial Geography Down Under
Finance is undoubtedly one of the most globalised and networked phenomena in the world, yet it continues to display enormous geographical...
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Apr 8, 20191 min read
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