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Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces (2017)
Journal Article
Ash, J., Anderson, B., Gordon, R., & Langley, P. (2018). Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces. Cultural Geographies, 25(1), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474017726556

Digital interfaces, in the form of websites, mobile apps and other platforms, now mediate user experiences with a variety of economic, cultural and political services and products. To study these digital mediations, researchers have to date followed... Read More about Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces.

Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2017). Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding. Environment and Planning A, 49(5), 1019-1039. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16687556

‘Crowdfunding’ is a method of raising money and finance to capitalize projects of various kinds. Drawing on the networking capabilities of the internet and software platforms, those seeking project funding appeal to potentially diverse audiences who... Read More about Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding.

Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A cultural economy (2016)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2016). Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A cultural economy. Economic Geography, 92(3), 301-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2015.1133233

Crowdfunding is a digital economy in which funds provided by large numbers of individuals (the crowd) are aggregated and distributed through online platforms to a range of actors and institutions. In the United Kingdom, crowdfunding is a particularly... Read More about Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A cultural economy.

Equipping entrepreneurs: consuming credit and credit scores (2014)
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Langley, P. (2014). Equipping entrepreneurs: consuming credit and credit scores. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 17(5), 448-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2013.849592

On-line products that make an individual's credit score an object of consumption and equip credit consumers with the capacity to improve their score are shown to exemplify two sets of dynamic tendencies to change in mass market consumer credit. First... Read More about Equipping entrepreneurs: consuming credit and credit scores.

Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis (2013)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2013). Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis. Economy and Society, 42(1), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.686719

Widely regarded as a watershed moment in the governance of the present global financial crisis, the US Treasury's Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) of spring 2009 undertook to ‘stress test’ the solvency of the largest American banks by pr... Read More about Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis.

Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security: Governing the crisis of global financial circulation (2013)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2013). Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security: Governing the crisis of global financial circulation. Security Dialogue, 44(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010613479425

Focusing on a highly significant governmental intervention in the global financial market crisis – the US Treasury Department’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) of autumn 2008 – this article makes a threefold contribution to the growing literatu... Read More about Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security: Governing the crisis of global financial circulation.

Remaking retirement investors: behavioural economics and occupational pension funds in the UK and USA (2012)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leaver, A. (2012). Remaking retirement investors: behavioural economics and occupational pension funds in the UK and USA. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 473-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.691893

Summoned up within the defined-contribution (DC) plans that now predominate in the UK and USA, the financial subject of the retirement investor is identified by behavioural economics as the crucial problem to be solved in present-day occupational pen... Read More about Remaking retirement investors: behavioural economics and occupational pension funds in the UK and USA.

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Financialisation and the Management of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2012)
Journal Article
Chima, O., & Langley, P. (2012). Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Financialisation and the Management of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. Global Society, 26(4), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2012.710595

The subprime mortgage debacle in the USA and the subsequent global credit crunch provoked a wide range of crisis management responses in different national settings. Such interventions are typically figured as the sovereign state coming to the rescue... Read More about Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Financialisation and the Management of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis.

Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality (2012)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2012). Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 369-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.703146

The social identity of professional financiers is a relatively long-standing concern of social scientists. Consider, for example, the ‘gentlemanly capitalists’ of the City of London’s investment banks (Augar 2000; Cain & Hopkins 1986, 1987), and the... Read More about Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality.

The performance of liquidity in the subprime mortgage crisis (2010)
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Langley, P. (2010). The performance of liquidity in the subprime mortgage crisis. New Political Economy, 15(1), 71-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563460903553624

‘Liquidity’ is highly significant to representations of the crisis that gripped financial markets from the summer of 2007. A wide-ranging ‘liquidity crisis’ is typically traced to the collapse of prices in markets for assets backed by or derived from... Read More about The performance of liquidity in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Debt, discipline and government: Foreclosure and forbearance in the subprime mortgage crisis (2009)
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Langley, P. (2009). Debt, discipline and government: Foreclosure and forbearance in the subprime mortgage crisis. Environment and Planning A, 41(6), 1404-1419. https://doi.org/10.1068/a41322

The extensive punishment of debtors through foreclosure, and federal and state support for forbearance by lenders and loan servicers, are key features of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States of America. From a Foucauldian perspective, fo... Read More about Debt, discipline and government: Foreclosure and forbearance in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Sub-prime mortgage lending: A cultural economy (2008)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2008). Sub-prime mortgage lending: A cultural economy. Economy and Society, 37(4), 469-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085140802357893

Developing cultural economists’ concerns with the assembly of agency in financial markets, agency in sub-prime mortgage lending in the United States is shown to have been made up through calculative devices of risk. Credit reporting and scoring provi... Read More about Sub-prime mortgage lending: A cultural economy.

Financialization and the consumer credit boom (2008)
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Langley, P. (2008). Financialization and the consumer credit boom. Competition & Change, 12(2), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1179/102452908x289794

Viewed in retrospect, the concept of 'financialization' highlights the massive growth in the issue and trading of ownership claims on all manner of instruments. It has also opened the way for research linking these changes in the financial markets to... Read More about Financialization and the consumer credit boom.

Securitising suburbia: The transformation of Anglo-American mortgage finance (2006)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2006). Securitising suburbia: The transformation of Anglo-American mortgage finance. Competition & Change, 10(3), 283-299. https://doi.org/10.1179/102452906x114384

Informed by and contributing to approaches to finance that draw on Foucault and actor-network theory, the paper focuses on the contemporary transformation of Anglo-American mortgage finance. This transformation is understood to entail the lengthening... Read More about Securitising suburbia: The transformation of Anglo-American mortgage finance.