Workshop seeks to establish productive dialogue between international political economy scholars and financial geography. Addresses series of questions on contemporary monetary order.
Organised by Dr Jeremy Green (University of Cambridge)
Dr Julian Gruin (University of Warwick)
The aftershocks of the Global Financial Crisis and the continued growth of Chinese
economic power have stimulated interest in the dynamics and evolution of the
international monetary order. China’s Renminbi, spurred by government commitment to
currency transnationalization, has been identified as a potential if highly nascent challenge
to a USD-centered order that is in flux. Yet the geographical and spatial dimensions of this
change and continuity remain understudied. While IPE scholars have identified the powerpolitical
implications of changing monetary dynamics, they have often remained trapped
within a binary spatial dichotomy of ‘national’ and ‘global’ dynamics, ignoring other
important scales. Financial geographers, by contrast, have been far more effective in
identifying the importance of subnational and transnational scales - most notably the role
global cities/global financial centres as key spaces within which the dynamics of monetary
transformation play out.
This workshop seeks to establish productive dialogue between IPE and financial
geography.