Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 15/07/2026New FinVis: Benceković, Bresnihan, McCabe & Fitzgerald illustrate how capital is seeks to solve the frustrating puzzle of consolidating Ireland's fragmented smallholder landscapes: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833... 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This week's editor's pick from David Bassens: Martijn van der Linden's 'When finance drives house prices: a policy agenda for affordable housing in Europe' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWhen finance drives house prices: a policy agenda for affordable housing in EuropeThe draft report of the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis of the European Parliament posits that high house prices are caused by the imbalance between housing demand and supply, and cautions ... 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 09/07/2026📄 New in Finance & Space (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Theurillat & Donzé use Swiss banks in Japan to show how domestic networks shape international financial centres, integrating business history with financial geography. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa... 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 07/07/2026📚 New F&S collection: Geography still matters — spatial dimensions of banking Fenghua Pan has curated a fascinating collection illustrating that geography remains essential in banking and finance. Open for submissions! Explore the collection: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa... 020
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This week's editor's pick 💫 Sara Benceković follows the ownership trails of Croatia's banks from 1989 to 2023, exploring how the 'subordinated financialisation' of its banks was co-produced by the Croatian state. Important post-socialist case of banking financialisation. 100
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This week's Editor's Pick is 'Quo vadis neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?' by Alami et al: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Editor David Bassens picked this as it dissects the transforming role of the state amid mutating neoliberalism with a focus on the state-finance nexusresearchgate.netFinance and SpaceAccess 135+ million publications and connect with 20+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research. 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 10/06/2026New in Finance & Space, Jingting Lei, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Christian Steglich & Rafael Wittek examine two decades of bank-to-nonbank (BNB) network evolution (2002–2022) 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833... 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New in Finance & Space: Sara Benceković shows how Yugoslavia's collapse opened Croatia's banking sector to Western European takeover. The Croatian case raises fundamental questions about what is lost when banking stops being local. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833... 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Congratulations to Stefanos Ioannou, recipient of the 2026 Finance and Space Best Referee Award! A huge thank you for your invaluable contribution to the journal through your time and expertise as a reviewer. Watch Stefanos receive the award here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-fs...regionalstudies.org2026 Finance and Space Best Referee Award - RSA MainWatch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the 2026 Award for the Finance and Space Best Referee to Stefanos Ioannou (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 26/05/2026We're delighted to announce the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award! (1 of 2) goes to Erc Helleiner for: 'International Finance and the Global Polycrisis' Read the full paper: 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Watch Eric being presented the award: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-fs...tandfonline.comInternational finance and the global polycrisisIt 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... 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 26/05/2026New in Finance & Space: Neha Arora & Nihan Akyelken use financial diaries as a spatial–affective method to trace the everyday economies of construction and service workers at large urban infrastructure projects in Johannesburg and Istanbul. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833... 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Winner of the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award! (1 of 2) Sam Unsworth for: 'We don't want to be colonialism 2.0': emerging frontiers of climate finance for technology innovation' Read the full paper here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833... Watch here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-fs...regionalstudies.org2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award (1) - RSA MainWatch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Sam Unsworth (Division of Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University… 020
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Which city has the most diversified elite wealth? Which banking centre is most globally connected? Where does venture capital flow in China? This new Finance and Space collection on financial networks tackles these questions and more 👉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa... 035
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Climate governance is increasingly enacted through financial mechanisms rather than public policy. This collection examines the politics of climate finance and calls for a new research agenda centred on value, power and justice. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa... 032
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026How does finance shape geopolitical power? Our new Finance & Space special collection brings together work examining how financial systems underpin contemporary state power and global competition. Browse the collection here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa... 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Where does debt-driven growth actually happen? New research in Finance & Space finds it may not be where debt is taken on, but elsewhere in the system. Read James Wood's 'The spatial dynamics of America’s debt-driven growth model' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 031
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Why are international finance centres absent from debates on post-carbon transitions? In this new commentary, Sabine Dörry calls for forensic research into the institutional structures through which IFCs constrain rapid and just transitions. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgCarbon lock-in: why international financial centres matter for post-carbon transitionsInternational financial centres (IFCs) are not merely sites where global capital concentrates; they are legal-economic architectures that actively reproduce carbon lock-in. This commentary conceptu... 0169
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026New in Finance and Space: Daniel Robins on how Venezuelan migrants repurpose US FinTech for remittances. A striking case of monetary pluralism from the ground up. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgAlternative remittances to Venezuela: ad hoc technological diffusion and monetary pluralismVenezuelan migrants have historically been excluded from formal money transfer systems. Consequently, the diaspora has a strong culture of using alternative remittance methods. This article examine... 030
Reposted by Finance & SpaceRSA Blog @rsablog.bsky.social · 10/03/2026📢 New call for submissions Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making www.regionalstudies.org/wp-content/u...regionalstudies.org 101
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026🚨 Check out Finance and Space's inaugural themed collection 🚨 These articles on Climate Governance and finace examine how risks become assets, adaptation becomes transparency, and intermediaries reshape who controls climate planning: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...tandfonline.comBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 020
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 12/03/2026How is law used to make voluntary carbon markets liquid? Lukas Bogner traces how UNIDROIT's standardisation of carbon credits reshapes property rights in the Global South and drives jurisdictional competition in the Global North. Open access here:doi.orgBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 031
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Do tax incentives attract foreign investment or just signal that a government is trying? Sudiana, Jones and Wren survey of 224 foreign-owned plants in Indonesia find that labour costs drive location but incentives don't. Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgThe FDI location motive and effectiveness of tax incentives: evidence for IndonesiaTax incentives are used to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), especially in less-developed countries, but the evidence for their effect is mixed. Recently, it has been argued that these incen... 011
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Where do green financial flows land? Why does green finance land where it does? What does it produce when it “hits the ground”? Find out in our new special issue on 'Green finance and capital landing' edited by Antoine Ducastel & Bregje Van Veelen: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...tandfonline.comBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 24/12/2025NEW 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 assetstandfonline.comPositioning for net-zero: Singapore’s extraterritorial agency in global production and financial networksThe 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... 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 22/12/2025How 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.tandfonline.comThe war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geographyEnvironmental, 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... 056
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 17/11/2025New in Finance and Space: Alexander Kristiansen & Patrik Ström shows how DeFi mirrors offshore finance with arbitrage, opacity, and power concentrated in new hands 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 012
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Has 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: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833... 001
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025🗞️ New in Finance and Space: ECB’s QE didn’t realign Eurozone finance but fuelled capital switching abroad. What does this mean for Europe’s financial sovereignty? Access David Bassens & Duncan Lindo latest here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 10/11/2025📣 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 Decemberthink.taylorandfrancis.comMulti-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and ReflexivityThis special issue invites contributions on multi-level phenomena in financial geography. 012
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 04/11/2025💸 New in Finance & Space: Ludovico Rella shows how banks are using blockchain and federated learning to turn our data (and its risks) into monetisable synthetic datasets. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2565528 031
Reposted by Finance & SpaceStefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Some excellent recent work by my research partner Ben Mkalama. www.techpolicy.press/how-digital-... www.dgb-bildungswerk.de/gute-arbeit/... Our own recent works @financeandspace.bsky.social and SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... academic.oup.com/ser/article/...techpolicy.pressHow Digital Colonialism Threatens Kenya’s Silicon Savannah | TechPolicy.PressGlobal power asymmetries are reshaping, and potentially undermining, Kenya's technological future, Ben Mkalama and Marine Ragnet write. 056
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Who 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 29/10/2025🏘️ NEW PAPER: How are housing booms & busts synchronized globally? Hong and Wójcik's study of 51 countries reveals gloabl power asymmetries persist. 📖 Read in Finance and Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgThe geography of housing boom and bust cyclesThis 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... 042
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 28/10/2025🖼️ 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/ 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 27/10/2025New in Finance & Space! 📢 Why does financialisation happen — and who benefits? Hannah Hasenberger digs into the politics behind state financialisation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comChallenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geographyFinancialisation 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... 154
Reposted by Finance & SpaceLudovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Want 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.... 1207
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 17/10/2025📢 New article in Finance and Space “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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgSustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economyThe 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 ... 022
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 14/10/2025New in Finance and Space: 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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833... 000
Reposted by Finance & SpaceNick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comChallenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geographyFinancialisation 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... 0144
Reposted by Finance & SpaceRSA Blog @rsablog.bsky.social · 15/09/2025For 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. Read Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad’s RSA Summer Series blog 👇 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... Found this interesting? 112
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The 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 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833... 022
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2025How 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...doi.orgBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 002
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Latin 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. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833...doi.orgBrowse all journalsBrowse all journals 000
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Got 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 More info here www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...tandfonline.comLearn about Finance and SpaceLearn about Finance and Space aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more. 042
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 26/06/2025🚨New in Finance & Space 🚨 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....tandfonline.comInternational finance and the global polycrisisIt 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... 066
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 16/06/2025RSA 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'🏆 Read this pathbreaking article here: doi.org/10.1080/2833... 020
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Maria 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....tandfonline.comBank 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... 010
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 06/06/2025FinTech 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. New in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833... 050
Reposted by Finance & SpaceJohn Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Another must read article out form Rob Aitken www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... this one in @financeandspace.bsky.social Bravo!tandfonline.comBuilding and protecting assets in the spaces of climate risk-makingIn 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... 022
Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 04/06/2025How 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...doi.orgBuilding and protecting assets in the spaces of climate risk-makingIn 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... 022