All Outputs (6)

Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money (2024)
Book
Wojcik, D., Iliopoulos, P., Ioannou, S., Keenan, L., Migozzi, J., Monteath, T., Pazitka, V., Torrance, M., Urban, M., Cheshire, J., & Uberti, O. (2024). Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18427134

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. This atlas uses graphics and maps to bring the c... Read More about Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money.

Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (2024)
Journal Article
Ioannou, S., Keenan, L., & Wójcik, D. (2024). Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Eurasian Geography and Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2024.2393626

How do credit rating agencies (CRAs) view China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? Our analysis of 132 countries in 2000–17 demonstrates that Chinese foreign investment adversely affects sovereign ratings of recipient countries when these countries pa... Read More about Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula (2024)
Journal Article
Clare, N., & Keenan, L. (in press). Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2024.2338118

Studying abroad has the potential to contribute to wider processes of curriculum decolonisation. More often than not, however, it can actually serve to recolonise and reproduce multiscalar forms of privilege, with the majority of programs seeing stud... Read More about Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula.

Hungry for power: financialization and the concentration of corporate control in the global food system (2023)
Journal Article
Keenan, L., Monteath, T., & Wójcik, D. (2023). Hungry for power: financialization and the concentration of corporate control in the global food system. Geoforum, 147, Article 103909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103909

The global food system is in crisis. Climate change, ecological degradation, and economic and military conflict have exposed significant vulnerabilities in how the world produces, distributes, and consumes food. While governments aim to address these... Read More about Hungry for power: financialization and the concentration of corporate control in the global food system.

The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) (2023)
Journal Article
Keenan, L., & Wójcik, D. (2023). The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Environment and Planning A, 55(6), 1618-1627. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X231190091

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are on the rise. Interlocking processes of globalization and financialization have increased their attractiveness and incentivized an upward spiral of M&A activity in recent years. This rise is profoundly spatial, as M... Read More about The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As).

Tokyo's booms and busts: Placing Japan in the global financial network (2022)
Journal Article
Keenan, L., & Wójcik, D. (2022). Tokyo's booms and busts: Placing Japan in the global financial network. Finance and Society, 8(2), 149-168. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.7765

Tokyo is conspicuous for its now decades-long absence in the headlines of global financial news. In this article, we revisit the evolution of Tokyo as an international financial centre through the lens of Global Financial Networks (GFN). Drawing on i... Read More about Tokyo's booms and busts: Placing Japan in the global financial network.