Book description
This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the
banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and
conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two,
revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved
alongside the shifting loci of banking activity.
- An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on
banking sparked by the current economic crisis
- Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept
of 'placement' of the banking industry
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Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with
contemporary literature on the performativity of economics
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Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how
representations of the banking sector's productiveness have
shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory
- Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature - and value -
of the banking industry
- Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the
economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products
of particular economic realities
Brett Christophers
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Economic
Geography and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at the
University of Uppsala, Sweden. He holds degrees from the Universities of
Oxford, UK, British Columbia, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, and is
the author of
Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the
Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia
(1998) and
Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television
(2009).
