The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography has just been published. For more details, please visit the SAGE website. The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography Edited by Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Linda McDowell & Peter Sunley Contents: PART ONE: LOCATION MODELS AND QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Locating Location Models - Jürgen Essletzbichler The Quantitative Revolution and Economic... Continue Reading →
NUS Department of Geography Seminar presentation 28 Jan 2011
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Relocation to the National University of Singapore
With effect from 1 November 2010, I will be based at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. Address: Department of Geography National University of Singapore 1 Arts Link Singapore 117570 Office: (+65) 6601 1720 Fax: (+65) 6777 3091 Email: karenlai@nus.edu.sg
Research article – “Marketisation through contestation: Reconfiguring China’s financial markets through knowledge networks”
Lai, Karen P.Y. (2010) Marketisation through contestation: Reconfiguring China’s financial markets through knowledge networks, Journal of Economic Geography, doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbq005 Abstract: This paper unpacks a particular case of market making by scrutinising the richness of market meanings, the diversity of market actors and the contested nature of market knowledge and practices, in the context of... Continue Reading →
After Markets: a workshop at the Oxford Said Business School, 23 April 2010
After Markets: Researching Hybrid Arrangements Friday, April 23th, 2010 Oxford Said Business School Hosted by: Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) This workshop will feature talks by scholars working in the social studies of science and technology and political and economic sociology. The principal aim of the workshop is to foster an exchange between different approaches developed in these... Continue Reading →
GaWC Young Researchers and Postgraduate Workshop: ‘Cities and the Creative Economy’
Call for Papers - Deadline 5th March 2010 GaWC Young Researchers and Postgraduate Workshop: 'Cities and the Creative Economy' 28th April, 2010, Loughborough University, UK The Globalization and World City Research Centre (GaWC), based in the Geography Department at Loughborough University is hosting a workshop for young researchers and postgraduates on the creative economy and... Continue Reading →
Book review: Liquidated: an ethnography of Wall Street
A book review that I have written for the Journal of Economic Geography is now available on Advanced Access. This ethnography of Wall Street investment banks by anthropologist Karen Ho is a successful attempt at puncturing the aura of Wall Street superiority, revealing its fragilities, contradictions and the often devastating impacts of their corporate cultures... Continue Reading →
Last call for Summer Institute in Economic Geography 2010
Last call: The deadline for applications for the Summer Institute in Economic Geography, scheduled for Vancouver, June 27-July 2, is January 31. Further details and the application form can be found at http://www.econgeog.net/ The summer institute is open to PhD students, postdocs and recently appointed faculty in economic geography, broadly defined. Applicants should assume that... Continue Reading →
GEOG 364 Globalization, Cities & Regions for Fall 2009
Course information for GEOG 364 Globalization, Cities & Regions have been updated for the Fall semester of 2009/2010. Contact information for instructors and course syllabus are available on the Teaching page. Reading packet for the course will NOT be available at the UBC Bookstore. Please purchase them from the course instructors during and after the... Continue Reading →
Working papers on GaWC
I have two new working papers on market formation and financial centres in China that are now posted on the Globalisation and World Cities (GaWC) website: Lai, Karen P.Y. (2009) Marketisation through contestation: reconfiguring China’s financial markets through knowledge networks, GaWC Research Bulletin 314. [Download PDF at GaWC website] Lai, Karen P.Y. (2009) Global cities... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 