Money and finance after the crisis : critical thinking for uncertain times

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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. Read more... Abstract: 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. Read more... Content: Money and finance after the crisis : taking critical stock / Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon, and Geoff Mann -- From time-space compression to spatial spreads : situating nationality in global financial liquidity / Dick Bryan, Michael Rafferty and Duncan Wigan -- Financial flows : spatial imaginaries of speculative circulations / Paul Langley -- Making financial instability visible in space as well as time : toward a more Keynesian geography / Gary A. Dymski -- Banks in the frontline : assembling space/time in financial warfare / Marieke de Goede -- Undoing apartheid : from land reform to credit reform in South Africa / Deborah James -- Infrastructure's contradictions : how private finance is re-shaping cities / Phillip O'Neill -- The financialization of nature conservation? / Jessica Dempsey -- Financialisation of Singaporean banks and the production of variegated financial capitalism / Karen P.Y. Lai and Joseph A. Daniels.