Finance & Space
Finance & Space is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on how and why finance and space co-evolve, and impacts on economy, society, and the environment.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfas20
- 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
- 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.
- New 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...
- 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: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- 🗞️ 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...
- 📣 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
- 💸 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
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceSome 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/...
- 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 🏘️ 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...
- 🖼️ 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/
- New 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....
- In critical dialogue with @nickbernards.bsky.social’s recent book 'Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceWant 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....
- 📢 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...
- New 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...
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceReally 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....
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceFor 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?
- 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 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- 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. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- 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 More info here www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...
- 🚨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....
- 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'🏆 Read this pathbreaking article here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- 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. New in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceAnother must read article out form Rob Aitken www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... this one in @financeandspace.bsky.social Bravo!
- 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...
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceGreat to have our paper selected!
- Two Finance & Space articles have been selected in @regstud.bsky.social 's curated special collection 'Navigating Regional Transformation'! Access the collection here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/navigat...
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceCalling the RSA community for fresh perspectives 📢 @regstud.bsky.social @rsachiefexec.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social @rsa-regions.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Let’s shape the future of regions together 🌎✍️
- 'We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0' New Finance & Space article from Sam Unsworth investigates VC investment in climate technology startups for Africa: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Two Finance & Space articles have been selected in @regstud.bsky.social 's curated special collection 'Navigating Regional Transformation'! Access the collection here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/navigat...
- The first is Kate Booth and Grace Martini on the spatial dynamics of the challenges climate change poses for the insurance industry: www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
- The other is Ben Mkalama and Stefan Ouma on the uneven financial geographies of Kenya's 'Silicone Savannah' www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
- Who gets to shape renewable energy projects — and who gets left out? Alain Nadaï, Pascal Grouiez & Arnaud Assié show how different forms of renewable energy and their financing enatil different modes of territorialisation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- New article 📣 "Renewables in the queue: capital landing and the present crisis in power transmission" by Sara Knuth and Jessie Ventrella www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceCounting down to #RSA2025 and we are delighted to share a collection of free-to-access articles from across our journals www.regionalstudies.org/news/navigat... @regionalstudies.bsky.social @spatialeconomic.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social
- 📣 Finance & Space's Annual Lecture 2024 'The Waterworks of Money' from Martijn van der Linden, Thomas Bollen and Carlijn Kingma, online now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📣 New FinVis 'The Global City Network of Firms' from Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler & Julia Loginova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Discuss: "The connectivity of the global city network of firms suggests that any movement toward de-globalisation would be challenging in practice. Clear evidence of regionalisation within the network suggests that regional blocs may withstand global turmoil..."
- Reposted by Finance & Space'Building the de-risking state' is now open access on @financeandspace.bsky.social. In it we examine the careful political work of building what @danielagabor.bsky.social and Sylla call a 'derisking consensus' in sectors with social/green logics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceExcellent new visualisation of cities in globalisation published in @financeandspace.bsky.social by Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler and Julia Loginova gawc.lboro.ac.uk/visualisatio...
- climate risk x muni bonds 🔥⛈️🏦 Mark Davidson and Samuel Cooper examine trends in how municipalities disclose climate risk to prospective bondholders www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 🗣️ AI is transforming financial sector labour markets... Or is it? In their Finance & Space original research article, Michael Samers and Yujia He find no evidence that AI has led to the decentralisation of financial labour markets in the US: buff.ly/3EJCrZl
- How is it that financial instruments such as REITs come to be framed as solutions to urban problems? James Christopher Mizes, Martine Drozdz, Sinan Erensü, Ozan Karaman, & Mathilde Moaty explore this question through the case of REITs in Nairobi: buff.ly/4k144gF
- Gotta catch 'em all? Gordon Kuo Siong Tan explores the intersection of blockchain and carbon markets in cryptocarbon projects buff.ly/415k2NZ
- FINVIS: Shuai Shi & Ruiyang Wang map out the uneven geography of venture capital investment in China:
- Shi and Wang's cartogram illustrates the extremely uneven geography of VC investment towards China's east coast:
- And illustrate the destination of these flows at the regional level in a chord diagram:
- Is climate change leading to the collapse of the insurance industry? Kate Booth and Grace Martini explore insurance’s radically changing financial geographical imaginaries in their Finance & Space article 'Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe
- Did you know the ESG information industry is dominated by Europe and North America? Check out Andreas Dimmelmeier's FinVis: buff.ly/3Qhb0sn
- How does private equity extract value from Germany’s solidarity-based healthcare system without detection? Richard Bůžek’s latest in Finance & Space uncovers two key mechanisms: 📌 Neoclassical economic framing 📌 Opaque corporate structures 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/4gexzs6
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceTo those celebrating next week: warm wishes to you for the coming lunar new year! 🐍 🧧幸福安康 Wishing you happiness and good health 🧧萬事如愿May all your wishes be fulfilled
- 🚀 Finance & Space kicks off 2025 with a deep dive into financial geography! Paweł Węgrzyn's systematic literature review charts the evolution of the field, from financial centres to fintech, and highlights new research frontiers. A must-read. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceMoney flows like mercury - spatially & socially! 'Silicon Savannah' is often hailed as start-up success story. Scrutinizing the demographics of VC flows suggests a highly uneven social geography of start-up money. We offer some numbers & great visuals on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Finance & SpaceThe Inaugural Issue of Finance and Space @financeandspace.bsky.social is now online. Great move by the FINGEO network, who has been driving this all along... @rsablog.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfas20/1/1
- Reposted by Finance & Space🌟 New Year, New Regional Perspectives! @regstud.bsky.social is seeking fresh blog submissions for 2025! Share your insights on regional development, policy & innovation. All perspectives are welcome from Global South to North, local to transnational! (1/2) @financeandspace.bsky.social
- Read our latest editorial 'Finance in the age of geoeconomics: intersections of finance, production, and digital technology' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Beltway bandits in the UK! Taylor and Gilbert’s new FinVis shows the geography of private-sector contracts awarded from the UK’s Foreign and Development Office. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social
- Risky business! What drives risk preference for financial instruments: your individual background or cultural context? A new article from Clark et al show how institutional and cultural factors matter through a global comparison. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social
- Is bigger better? A new article from Flogel and Hejnova shows how the geographic concentration of banks in Europe leads to worse national financial outcomes in crises. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
