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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on July 20, 2009
Journal of Economic Geography 2009 9(5):587-595; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbp037
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Introduction: financial geographies—the credit crisis as an opportunity to catch economic geography's next boat?1

Ewald Engelen* and James Faulconbridge**

* Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. email <e.r.engelen{at}uva.nl>
** Department of Geography, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK. email <j.faulconbridge{at}lancaster.ac.uk>

JEL classifications: G01, N2

The story of the financial turmoil that swept the world in 2007 and 2008 has proven to be geographical to the bone. In this introduction to the special issue on ‘financial geographies’ we express concerns that the financial crisis and all it has showcased is going to be economic geography's ‘next missed boat’. We derive three problematics from the crisis—productivism, epochal thinking and rationality—and discuss the extent financial geography is positioned to address them. The second aim of the introduction is to present an overview of the papers in this special issue and the ways in which they take up the issues raised in this introduction.

Keywords: financial geography, financial crisis
Date submitted: 14 June 2009     Date accepted: 29 June 2009


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