Finance & Space

Positioning for net-zero: Singapore’s extraterritorial agency in global production and financial networks The restructuring of global production networks (GPNs) towards decarbonisation is tightly coupled with a parallel transformation of global financial networks (GFNs), yet scholarship has given limit...

NEW in Finance and Space: How does Singapore maintain its position as Asia's trade & finance hub amid net-zero transitions?

Emma Galbraith and Javier Revilla Diez reveal mechanisms of extraterritorial agency in leveraging SE Asia's assets

The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become a site of struggle, around which a range of actors at multiple scales and in different legal, political and financial spheres are mob...

How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?

Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.

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Alexander Kristiansen & Patrik Ström shows how DeFi mirrors offshore finance with arbitrage, opacity, and power concentrated in new hands

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Has DeFi really decentralised real estate?

Ang Liu’s new article in Finance & Space shows the Aspen Coin case mostly recentralises ownership rather than democratising it:

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ECB’s QE didn’t realign Eurozone finance but fuelled capital switching abroad. What does this mean for Europe’s financial sovereignty?

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Multi-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and Reflexivity This special issue invites contributions on multi-level phenomena in financial geography.

📣 Special Issue Call for Papers: "Multi-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and Reflexivity" organised by Franziska Sohns: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Submit your abstracts by 31st December

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Ludovico Rella shows how banks are using blockchain and federated learning to turn our data (and its risks) into monetisable synthetic datasets.

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How Digital Colonialism Threatens Kenya’s Silicon Savannah | TechPolicy.Press Global power asymmetries are reshaping, and potentially undermining, Kenya's technological future, Ben Mkalama and Marine Ragnet write.

Some excellent recent work by my research partner Ben Mkalama.

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Our own recent works @financeandspace.bsky.social and SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social :
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Who gets climate finance and who gets shut out?

New Finance & Space article from Jessie Poon, Stacy-ann Robinson & Peng Peng shows donor networks favour less-vulnerable, well-connected countries, while highly climate-vulnerable nations struggle to access funds.

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The geography of housing boom and bust cycles This study examines the synchronisation of housing boom and bust cycles across 51 countries from 2007-Q3 to 2022-Q4, focusing on the period after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). While previous r...

🏘️ NEW PAPER: How are housing booms & busts synchronized globally?

Hong and Wójcik's study of 51 countries reveals gloabl power asymmetries persist.

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🖼️ FINVIS:

Ruth Buck, Emily Rosenman and Louisa Holmes visualise Purdue Pharma's corporate ownersihp structure: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Their interactive diagram allows users to investigate the financial processes beneath the opioid epidemic: rkbuck1.github.io/finviz/

In critical dialogue with @nickbernards.bsky.social’s recent book 'Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'

Challenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geography Financialisation is a key concept in financial geography, used to explain various phenomena. But have we sufficiently explained financialisation? Nick Bernards’ recent book, Fictions of Financializ...

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Why does financialisation happen — and who benefits?
Hannah Hasenberger digs into the politics behind state financialisation

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Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy The standard sustainable finance agenda portrays the investment world as a change agent for the green transformation of the economy. It does so by demanding more transparency and information for a ...

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“Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy”

Lisa Knoll, Ulrich Klüh, Ilias Naji & Felix Rossmann examines how EU sustainable finance rules ‘land’ in Germany’s regional banking and SME networks.

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Oriane Lafuente-Sampietro & Ariane Reyns examine how territorial & socioeconomic factors shape the spread of mutual credit systems using Sardex as a case study of decentralised finance in Italy.
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Challenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geography Financialisation is a key concept in financial geography, used to explain various phenomena. But have we sufficiently explained financialisation? Nick Bernards’ recent book, Fictions of Financializ...

Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social!

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For centuries, Mumbai’s Koli fishing communities shaped life by the tides 🌊🐟. Their Koliwadas are more than hamlets, they’re vernacular regions of caste, craft & ecology.
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The mBridge CBDC project (China, HK, Thailand, UAE, Saudi Arabia) reveals how states are reshaping global finance at the crossroads of monetary & technological sovereignty.

New in Finance & Space from Jing Chu, Cheng Fang & Karen P. Y. Lai
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How is debt reshaping African cities?

In Malawi, the bond financing of roads in Lilongwe challenges the idea of African cities as “unbankable.”

👉 Matthew Lane, Evance Mwathunga & Jennifer Robinson in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Latin America is the most crisis-prone region in the world. But why?

In this new Finance & Space article, Belén Villegas Plá argues it is not just weak institutions but financial subordination driving political volatility.

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Got sharp insights on the shifting financial landscape?

In addition to original research articles, we accept submissions on a rolling basis for:

📝 Short-form commentaries
📊 FinVis – innovative visualizations that bring finance to life

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International finance and the global polycrisis It has become commonplace to suggest that we are living through a kind of ‘global polycrisis’. This article shows how the mobilisation of international finance has been at the core of political res...

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Eric Helleiner delivers a tour de force analysis of international finance amid polycrisis, encompassing:

🌍 Pandemic
🚩 Geopolitical conflict
🔥 Climate crisis
💱 Geoeconomic fragmentation
💣 Impending financial crisis?

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

RSA Award for Finance & Space Best Paper 2025 goes to...🥁 ...

Andreas Noelke, Goethe University, 'Private institutions in infrastructural geoeconomics: limits to the rise of emerging economies in global finance'🏆

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Bank branch closures and SME economic activity in Slovakia: good servant but a bad master? We investigate the impact of bank branch closures on labour productivity in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector in Slovakia over the 2016–2019 period. We use a staggered difference-i...

Maria Siranova explores the relationship between bank branch closures and labour productivity in Slovakian SMEs

New article out now in Finance & Space: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

FinTech meets forest restoration. But does the innovation match the hype?

Felicia Liu, Benjamin Thompson and Jack L. Harris explore the rise of ‘FinTech for Forests’ 🌳A must-read for those tracking the green turn in finance.

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Building and protecting assets in the spaces of climate risk-making In this paper, I explore two cases of climate financialisation: micro-insurance for climate uncertainty among the global poor, as well as attempts to rescue asset value via investor-state dispute m...

Another must read article out form Rob Aitken www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... this one in @financeandspace.bsky.social Bravo!

Building and protecting assets in the spaces of climate risk-making In this paper, I explore two cases of climate financialisation: micro-insurance for climate uncertainty among the global poor, as well as attempts to rescue asset value via investor-state dispute m...

How do financial actors turn climate chaos into durable assets - and what happens when those assets crack under pressure?

Rob Aitken’s new paper traces the politics of climate risk, from micro-insurance to ISDS.

Out now in Finance and Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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