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This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of 'placement' of the banking industry Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector's productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature – and value – of the banking industry Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realities

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Brett Christophers' Banking Across Boundaries is one such contribution that will surely be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, from economic geography to international political economy and economic sociology. ( Regional Studies , 1 September 2013) That said, and what is of particular interest here, is the way in which Banking Across Boundaries explicitly takes aim at performativity, a conceptual mainstay of the cultural economy of finance. (Journal of Cultural Economy , 22 March 2013)

Banking Across Boundaries should be read not just by economic geographers, political economists, or those concerned with the financial crisis, but by anyone who wants to understand key aspects of the global economy. ( Geographical Review , 16 December 2013) This is a hugely ambitious, powerful and provocative book ... Overall, this is an immensely impressive book. It provides a powerful demonstration of how political economic geographical analysis can operate through both the performative and material worlds of institutions, people, ideas, models and metrics ... Brett Christophers has produced a compelling book that should be widely read in economic geography and across the social sciences. Jane Pollard, Newcastle University, UK ( Progress in Human Geography book review symposium, 2013) Christophers displays many of the skills required of a good detective, being both forensic in his approach and resolute in his persistence: his refusal to let claims go unchallenged or data unexamined is an admirable feature throughout ... Clearly a major contribution to the field. Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK ( Progress in Human Geography book review symposium, 2013) Christophers has written, first, a deeply informative and, second, a very gutsy account of the expansion, contraction, and once again expansion of international banking. The book is gutsy because Christophers challenges the common wisdom that capitalism has undergone a basic restructuring and become 'financialized'. The challenge rests upon a foundation of quite extraordinary scholarship: it is impossible not to appreciate Christophers' sustained engagement with banking's centuries-long history and its extensive historical geography, too. George Henderson, University of Minnesota, USA ( Progress in Human Geography book review symposium, 2013) This is an immensely impressive ... [and] compelling book that should be widely read in economic geography and across the social sciences ... Christophers displays many of the skills required of a good detective, being both forensic in his approach and resolute in his persistence: his refusal to let claims go unchallenged or data unexamined is an admirable feature throughout ... A deeply informative and ... a very gutsy account of the expansion, contraction, and once again expansion of international banking. ( Progress in Human Geography , 1 September 2013) Brett Christophers' Banking Across Boundaries is one such contribution that will surely be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, from economic geography to international political economy and economic sociology. ( Regional Studies , 1 September 2013) That said, and what is of particular interest here, is the way in which Banking Across Boundaries explicitly takes aim at performativity, a conceptual mainstay of the cultural economy of finance. (Journal of Cultural Economy , 22 March 2013)

That said, and what is of particular interest here, is the way in which Banking Across Boundaries explicitly takes aim at performativity, a conceptual mainstay of the cultural economy of finance. (Journal of Cultural Economy , 22 March 2013)

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Brett Christophers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford, UK, British Columbia, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, and is the author of Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia (1998) and Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television (2009).

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