Professor Paul Langley

Biography

Paul Langley is Professor of Economic Geography. He joined the Department in 2011, and once was Professor of Global Relations at University of York and Senior Lecturer in Politics at Northumbria University. Paul’s Departmental functions have included Programme Director for BA(Hons) and MArts Geography, and Convenor associated with the Economy & customs research group.

Paul’s research passions centre on cash, monetary areas, and operations of financialization. He could be the writer of three monographs – World Financial Orders (Routledge, 2002/2013), The everyday activity of worldwide Finance (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Liquidity missing (Oxford University Press, 2015). Their research has gotten help through the Economic and Social analysis Council (ESRC), British Academy, and European Commission.

Paul is currently researching three areas of finance:

(1) Digital finance

Concentrating on the pay day loan market into the UK, Paul had been Co-Investogator for a recently finished ESRC task (led by James Ash, Newcastle, with Ben Anderson, Durham Geography, see //www.debtinterfaces.org.uk/) that explored how credit-debt relations are mediated through electronic platforms and apps. Publicatons come with a piece that is methodological investigating electronic interfaces (‘product, Vibration, Tone’, Cultural Geographies, 2017), a merchant account of this experimental work of screen developers (‘Digital screen design and energy’, Environment and preparing D: community and area, 2018), and a paper interrogating just just just exactly how borrowers relate solely to pay day loans as cash, much less credit, financial obligation and finance (‘Indebted life and cash culture’, Economy and Society, 2019).

Paul’s focus on electronic finance pertains to their wider passions within the advertising and usage of retail products that are financial solutions ( e.g. modified unique problem, ‘Consuming Credit’, Consumption, Markets and customs, 2014). It’s also being pursued through on-going research with Andrew Leyshon (University of Nottingham) into crowdfunding (Economic Geography, 2016, and Environment & Planning A, 2017), FinTech ( brand New Political Economy, 2020), and Platform Capitalism (Finance and community, 2017).

(2) Carbon finance

Included in REINVENT – a Horizon 2020 task with European lovers and Harriet Bulkeley and Gavin Bridge from Durham Geography – Paul investigated exactly exactly just exactly how brand brand new types of carbon finance are adding towards the decarbonization of European commercial sectors including plastic materials, metal, and paper. The publication that is first this work is available these days (‘Pluralizing and problematizing carbon finance’, Progress in Human Geography, 2019), and associated tasks are contained in a forthcoming chapter when you look at the Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography on ‘Impact investors’.

Analysis into carbon finance broadens Paul’s long research that is standing in financialization processes that variously vow to secure life via monetary logics, practices and methods. See, for instance: book-length remedies of the problems when you look at the every day life of worldwide Finance (OUP, 2008) and Liquidity missing (OUP, 2015); a write-up from the financialization associated with metropolitan infrastructures of life (‘Frontier Financialization’ //cartitleloans.biz/payday-loans-id/, Economic Anthropology, 2018); and, an essay that is conceptual for wide-ranging research into ‘The financialization of life’ (in International Handbook of Financialization, 2020, modified by Mader, Mertens & van der Zwan).

(3) personal finance

In collaboration with peers from Durham Geography, Paul is Co-Investigator for an ESRC Urban Transformations Programme task (see //community.dur.ac.uk/pursi/). Their share towards the task centres on researching unique forms of modern finance which can be demarcated relating to their social function (age.g. effect investment, social financing, community stocks, crowdfunding) and which variously permit procedures of metropolitan innovation that is social. See, as an example, Paul’s article on ‘The Folds of personal Finance’ (Environment & preparing A: Economy and area).

This research develops from Paul’s work that is previous the ambiguities of marginal and alternate areas of finance, including subprime mortgages (Economy and Society, 2008) and, particularly, ethical investment (in Abdelal, Blyth & Parson, 2010).

Cutting across their research, Paul additionally seeks to donate to debates underway in financial geography and past by creating a broad-based social economy approach. This consists of passions into the talents and limits of processual ideas typical to social economy (e.g. marketization, valuation, capitalization, assetization), the methods by which economics is grasped to possess performative and government energy, exactly exactly exactly just how affective energies are mobilized in financial techniques, and exactly how the generating of entrepreneurial and economic subjectivities features in contemporary government that is neoliberal.

Supervises

Paul welcomes doctoral research students thinking about focusing on topics that autumn broadly inside the remit of their research passions. He’s got formerly supervised pupils that have written theses on a number of of subjects, including: work-related retirement benefits in the united kingdom; sub-prime home loan areas in america and British; ‘small states’ and ‘hot cash’ when you look at the worldwide economy; monetary security and main banking; the increase of this United States dollar as ‘world cash’; financial austerity and every day life; personal wide range administration; and metropolitan atmosphere legal rights areas. He could be currently supervising pupil projects on distributed ledger technology and cross-border payments.