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Financial geography: introduction to the Virtual Issue
Author(s) -
Aalbers Manuel B
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12081
Subject(s) - geography of finance , political geography , finance , social studies of finance , politics , financial market , human geography , cultural geography , economy , economics , economic geography , political science , law
This introduction traces the development of financial geography through 15 papers selected for a Virtual Issueand previously published in Transactions between 1976 and 20141. The birth of a distinctive literature on thegeographies of money and finance can be traced back to the mid 1990s, although Transactions published a fewearlier papers dealing with building societies and international lending. Other finance-related topics of interestinclude: retail banking, financial exclusion, local exchange trading systems, venture capital investments, emergingmarkets, Islamic banking, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, financial crises, tourism and mining. WhileBritish financial geography dominates the literature in the early years, other countries and international financialflows slowly enter the debate. Although financial geographies are slowly being decentred and rescaled, more workis needed to make the literature more inclusive and geographically diverse. Financial geography built originally onwork in economic geography, political economy, urban geography and political geography, but later also includescultural economy and social studies of finance. Finally, the financial geography literature has established itselfwithin geography and increasingly also within interdisciplinary and pluralistic political and cultural economy.status: publishe