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 →
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 →
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 →
Forthcoming article in Geography Compass
The Publications page has been updated with a note on a forthcoming article on Geography Compass, titled "New Spatial Logics in Global Cities Research: Networks, Flows and New Political Spaces". A link will be added to the journal website when the article is available online. Abstract: While world cities or global cities research has become an established... Continue Reading →
EGRG working paper series
I have added a working paper on the Publications page, titled ' Developing regulatory frameworks and practices in China's new financial markets'. I have also submitted this paper to the Economic Geography Research Group' Working Paper Series. The EGRG is currently running a Postgraduate Working Paper Prize for the series. If you are a full... Continue Reading →
Review: Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies, edited by David Held and Anthony McGrew
I have just written a book review for the Economic Geography Research Group. A good introduction to an International Political Economy (IPE) approach to globalisation, with thought-provoking chapters on prescriptions for global redistributive justice. Lai, Karen (2008) Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies. Polity edited by David Held, and Anthony McGrew. Reviewed in: Economic Geography Research... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 