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Money and Finance After the Crisis
Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times
Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon & Geoff Mann
Uppsala University; University of Nottingham; Simon Fraser University
Series: Antipode Book Series
ISBN: 978-1-119-05142-8 | Aug 2017 | 272PP
Geography
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
About the Editors
Brett Christophers is Professor of Geography at Uppsala University. His work
focuses on the geographical political economy of capitalism in the Global North.
He is the author of Positioning the Missionary (1998), Envisioning Media Power (2009),
Banking Across Boundaries (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and The Great Leveler (2016).
Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of
Nottingham. His research focuses on money and finance, the musical economy,
and the emergence of diverse economies. His publications include Money/Space
(1997), The Place of Music (1998), Alternative Economic Spaces (2003), Geographies
of the New Economy (2007), The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography (2011), and
Reformatted (2014).
Geoff Mann is Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Global
Political Economy at Simon Fraser University. His work centres on the political
economy of liberal capitalism, and the politics of climate change. He is the author
of Our Daily Bread (2007), and Disassembly Required (2013).