Professor Paul Langley's Outputs (3)

Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2018). Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom. Economic Anthropology, 5(2), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12115

This article contributes to critical social scientific understanding of the significance of state power to the furtherance of the financialization of socioeconomic life. Drawing on the poststructural theories of power of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Fou... Read More about Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition (2018)
Journal Article
Ash, J., Anderson, B., Gordon, R., & Langley, P. (2018). Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(3), 1136-1153. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818767426

This paper draws upon the example of High-Cost Short-Term Credit products accessed via digital interfaces and devices to examine practices of interface design and the operation of digitally mediated power. Utilising interviews with High-Cost Short-Te... Read More about Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition.

The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social (2018)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2020). The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social. Environment and Planning A, 52(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17752682

The global financial crisis acted as a spur to ‘social finance’, a loose grouping of markets demarcated on the grounds of their ostensible social purpose. This article’s critical analysis of social finance contributes to cultural economy research int... Read More about The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social.