Reading

Reading

The project involves fortnightly reading groups, engaging with the work of leading scholars around inclusive economies.  Here's a selection of our readings to date:

Inclusive Growth:

Inclusive Finance:

  • Lagarde C. (2014) Economic inclusion and financial integrity: an address to the Conference on Inclusive Capitalism.
  • Leyshon, A. and Thrift, N. (1995) ‘Geographies of financial exclusion: financial abandonment in Britain and the United States’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 20(3): 312-341.
  • Fourcade, M. and Healy, K. (2013) ‘Classification situations: Life-chances in the neoliberal era’, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38: 559–572.
  • Fox Gotham, K. (2009) ‘Creating Liquidity out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(2): 355–71.
  • Pryke, M. (2017) ‘‘This time it’s different’.….. and why it matters: the shifting geographies of money, finance and risks’, in J. Pollard, & R. Martin (Eds.), Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Chapter 6.
  • French, S., Leyshon, A. and Wainwright, T. (2011) ‘Financializing space, spacing financialization’, Progress in Human Geography, 35(6): 798-819.
  • Aitken, R. (2013) ‘Finding the Edges of Payday Lending’, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 12: 377-409.
  • Jones, P.A. (2008) ‘From tackling poverty to achieving financial inclusion—The changing role of British credit unions in low income communities’, The Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(6): 2141–2154.
  • Benjamin, L. Sass Rubin, J. and Zielenbach, S. (2004) ‘Community Development Financial Institutions: Current Issues and Future Prospects’, Journal of Urban Affairs, 26(2): 177–195.
  • Mohieldin, M. (2012) ‘Realizing the potential of Islamic finance’, Economic premise, 77. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM)Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • Rethel, L. (2017) ‘The imaginary landscapes of Islamic Finance and the global financial crisis’, in J. Pollard, & R. Martin (Eds.), Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Chapter 24.
  • Klagge, B., Martin, R. and Sunley, P. (2017) ‘The spatial structure of the financial system and the funding of regional business: a comparison of Britain and Germany’, in J. Pollard, & R. Martin (Eds.), Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Chapter 7.
  • Bone Dodds, G. (2016) Banking for the Common Good: Laying the Foundations of Safe, Sustainable Banking in Scotland, Discussion Paper.
  • Blackburn, R. (2006) ‘Finance and the Fourth Dimension’, New Left Review’, 39: 39-70.
  • Blackburn, R. (2008) ‘The Subprime Crisis’, New Left Review’, 50: 63-106.
Inclusive Governance and Regulation:
 
  • Stoker, G. (1998) ‘Governance as theory: five propositions’, International Social Science Journal, 50(155): 17-28.
  • Crouch, C. (2012) ‘Coping with Post-Democracy’, Fabian Pamphlet.
  • Ayres, S., Sandford, M. and Coombes, T. (2017) ‘Policy making ‘front’ and ‘back’ stage: Assessing the implications for effectiveness and democracy’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1-16.
  • Böhm, S., Dinerstein, C. & Spicer, A. (2010) ‘(Im)possibilities of Autonomy:? Social Movements In and Beyond Capital, the State and Development’, Social Movement Studies, 9(1), pp. 17-32.
  • Cumbers, A. (2013) Making space for public ownership: The re-municipalisation of public services through grassroots struggle and local state action. Planning Theory and Practice, 14(4), pp. 547-551.
  • Cumbers, A. (2016) ‘Economic democracy: Reclaiming public ownership as the pragmatic Left alternative’, Juncture, 22(4): 324-328.
  • Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2012) ‘Revisiting public ownership: knowledge, democracy and participation in economic decision making’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 44(3): 358-373.
  • Rhodes, R. (1996) ‘The new governance: governing without government’, Political Studies, 44: 652-67.
  • Jessop, B. (1995) ‘The Regulation Approach to governance theory: alternative perspectives on political and economic change, Economy and Society, 24(3): 307-333.
  • Hall, S., Massey, D. and Rustin, M. (2015) After Neoliberalism: The Kilburn Manifesto. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
  • Clarke, J. and Newman, J. (2012) ‘The alchemy of austerity’, Critical Social Policy, 32(3) 299–319.
  • Crouch, C. (2004) Post‐democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Crouch, C. (2016) ‘The march towards post-democracy, ten years on’, Political Quarterly, 87(1): 71-75.
  • Crouch, C. (2009) ‘Post-Democracy’, Lecture and Interview forThe Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and the Renner Institute.
  • Bevir, M. (2010) Democratic Governance. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Inclusive Resource Networks:
 
  • Hawkey, D., Webb, J., Winskel, M., 2013. Organisation and governance of urban energy systems: district heating and cooling in the UK. Journal of Cleaner Production 50, 22–31. 
  • Trencher, G., 2019. Towards the smart city 2.0: Empirical evidence of using smartness as a tool for tackling social challenges. Technological Forecasting and Social Change142, pp.117-128.
  • Schulz, C. and Bailey, I., 2014. The green economy and post‐growth regimes: opportunities and challenges for economic geography. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography96(3), pp.277-291.