Overview

Research in this theme explores the uneven geographies of finance, how it is organized, institutionalised and governed as well as how it creates, assembles and distributes assets, liabilities and risk. Using a range of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches, work in this area examines the growing and uneven power of finance and its constitutive significance for the geographies of economic, social, political and cultural life.

• Geographies of debt and precarity
• Uneven geographies of financialisation 
• Financialising the state 
• Funding and financing of urban and regional development 
• Evolution and change in financial systems, structures and institutions 
• Global production networks and foreign direct investment 
• Alternative financial institutions, sources and forms of value 

People

Publications

• Cornford J, Wilson R, Baines S, Richardson R (2013) Local Governance in the new information ecology: The challenge of building interpretative communities, Public Money and Management

• Mearns GW, Richardson R, Robson, L (2015) Enacting the internet and social media on the public sector's frontline  New Technology, Work and Employment

• Mearns G, Simmonds R, Richardson R, Turner M, Watson P, Missier P. (2014) Tweet My Street: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration for the Analysis of Local Twitter Data Future Internet

Projects & Reports

• Richardson, R., Marques, P. and Morgan, K (2015) Smart Specialisation and Regional Development, Social Innovation for An Age Friendly Society, available at http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/research/smartspec/working-papers

• Richardson and Robson (2014) The Internet and Safety and Young People. CURDS’ Research Report, Number, 3.  http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/publications/reports.htm

• Bitton, J., Cavaco, A., Gaye, L., Jones, B. Mearns, G., Richardson, R. and A. Tanaka (nd) ‘Situating Community through Creative Technologies and Practice’. AHRC Connected Communities Programme