Financial geography has come of age: making space for intradisciplinary dialogue

ABSTRACT

The launch of Finance and Space heralds the maturation of financial geography as a geographical subdiscipline. Maturation comes with the responsibility to establish deeper dialogues across geography to achieve synthesis in big debates surrounding global challenges, science, technology, nature and society. We highlight three areas of intradisciplinary dialogic potential illustrating financial geography’s contribution to debates on (countering) run-away environmental degradation, (countering) the enclosure of life in digital platforms, and (countering) uneven development. These ventures, however, can only be successful amid a disciplinary culture of informed engaged pluralism, conceptual sobriety and critical deconstruction/reconstruction of financial sector discourse.

KEYWORDS:

• Financial geography
• engaged pluralism
• intradisciplinarity
• academic culture
• geographical imagination
• critical social science

JEL:

• B00
• N01
• Y80
• N20

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This writing of this commentary was supported by FWO Research [grant No. G004920N].