'City-fying' financial statecraft

摘要

An unfortunate undercurrent in contemporary scholarship on finance within critical geography has been to point a finger at "the state" as the agent of financialization without any substantive theorization of the state as a complex social relation. This book is a curative to that, and emerging and established scholars will have much to learn from its geographic political economy approach to finance, urban governance, and infrastructure investment. Rather than emphasize finance as a process that unfolds out there, they adopt an actor-oriented approach that draws together new, emergent, and existing actors and practices, and connects them back to wider structures and institutions that shape their emergence and practices.