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Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims (2019)
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Anthias, P. (2021). Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims. Geoforum, 119, 268-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.008

The recent proliferation of indigenous land titling processes has generated debate around the possibilities and limits of indigenous engagements with modern forms of cartography, territory and property. This paper makes a novel contribution to these... Read More about Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims.

Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university (2021)
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Hindle, C., McEwan, C., Boliver, V., Maclarnon, A., Simpson, B., & Brown, H. (2021). Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university. Learning and Teaching, 14(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2021.140202

Targets set by the UK Office for Students require highly academically selective UK universities to enrol a greater percentage of students identified as least likely to participate in higher education. Such students are typically at a disadvantage in... Read More about Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university.

Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta (2019)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta. Political Geography, 78, Article 102132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102132

Alberta's bitumen industry is frequently identified as a key site of environmental politics in the Anthropocene owing to the scale of its fossil fuel extraction operations. While popular images of surface mining activities often focus these discussio... Read More about Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta.

Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021)
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Hudson, R. (2021). Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?. Area Development and Policy, 6(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1854615

Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first d... Read More about Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?.

Geographies of humanitarian violence (2015)
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Lopez, P. J., Bhungalia, L., & Newhouse, L. S. (2015). Geographies of humanitarian violence. Environment and Planning A, 47(11), 2232 - 2239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15613330

Violence and humanitarianism are conventionally understood to be in opposition to one another. And yet, humanitarianism is also deeply entangled with violence—not only in tending to the after effects of human or natural catastrophe, but, at times, al... Read More about Geographies of humanitarian violence.

Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK (2019)
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Anderson, B., Langley, P., Ash, J., & Gordon, R. (2020). Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 420-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12355

Analysing the affective geographies of digitally mediated payday loans in the UK, this paper advocates and exemplifies an approach to cultural economy that focuses on how economic worlds are affectively animated and lived. Supplementing the two versi... Read More about Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK.

Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors (2015)
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Lai, K. P. (2016). Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12101

While recent work on financialisation of everyday life has elucidated the reshaping of everyday consumers as risk‐taking investors, the role of financial advisors (FAs) has been overlooked, even though they are key intermediaries in articulating hous... Read More about Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors.

Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia (2018)
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Lai, K. P., & Pan, F. (2021). Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia. Geoforum, 125, 201-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.004

Brexit could have profound impacts on the global financial landscape, as the global economy and financial markets are increasingly inter-connected. London’s role as the top international financial centre in Europe could be threatened due to the uncer... Read More about Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia.

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making (2019)
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Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Collier, M. J., Kendal, D., Bulkeley, H., Dumitru, A., …Pintér, L. (2019). Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making. Bioscience, 69(6), 455-466. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz042

Nature-based solutions offer an exciting prospect for resilience building and advancing urban planning to address complex urban challenges simultaneously. In this article, we formulated through a coproduction process in workshops held during the firs... Read More about Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making.

Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: a comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore (2016)
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Lai, K. P., & Samers, M. (2016). Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: a comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore. The Pacific Review, 30(3), 405-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2016.1264455

In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper compares and conceptualizes the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore. We argue that I... Read More about Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: a comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore.

How 'global' are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets (2019)
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Gemici, K., & Lai, K. P. (2019). How 'global' are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets. Regional Studies, 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1584393

This paper examines the distribution of power within financial networks of investment banks in equity capital markets of three key economies in Asia: Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Using social network analysis, it shows that while bulge-bracket ban... Read More about How 'global' are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets.