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Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world. (2008)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2008). Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world. Environment and Planning A, 40(2), 423-445. https://doi.org/10.1068/a391

This paper offers a sustained reflection on the nature of corporeal vulnerability as an inherent and noneliminable aspect of corporeal existence. One of the many remarkable things about the recent interest in embodiment, emotion, practice, and perfor... Read More about Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world..

Geography, Culture and Global Change. (2008)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2008). Geography, Culture and Global Change. In P. Daniels, M. Bradshaw, D. Shaw, & J. Sidaway (Eds.), Human Geography, Issues for the 21st Century (273-289). (3). Pearson

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.

Promotion and prevention within a decentralized framework: changing health care in Brazil and Chile (2008)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Cohn, A., Ducci, M., Fernandes, L., & Smyth, F. (2008). Promotion and prevention within a decentralized framework: changing health care in Brazil and Chile. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 23(2), 153-171. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.919

The study aims to define configurations of factors from local, regional and national levels that, within a context of decentralized health systems, enable or hinder change towards a health care model of promotion and disease prevention as advocated i... Read More about Promotion and prevention within a decentralized framework: changing health care in Brazil and Chile.

Financialization and the consumer credit boom (2008)
Journal Article
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.