Małgorzata Sokół
Biographic Data
| ID | 1236640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Małgorzata Sokół |
| GIVEN NAMES | Małgorzata |
| FAMILY NAME | Sokół |
| SIGNATURE | SOKÓŁ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6046-9244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Financial innovation for climate justice: Central banks and transformative ‘creative disruption’
Global financial architectures, including central banks and their monetary policies, are critical to leveraging transformative change for climate justice.Yet, currently central banks are exacerbating rather than mitigating the climate crisis and climate injustices.By following a neoliberal policy paradigm and narrowly interpreted mandates for price stability and financial stability, central banks are focusing on stabilizing a system that is inher…
Financialisation, central banks and ‘new’ state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England
Monetary policies are not usually considered as part of the repertoire of ‘state capitalism’. However, unconventional monetary operations performed by central banks in recent years make this exclusion increasingly problematic. This paper thus explores whether recent central bank interventions should be considered manifestations of ‘new’ state capitalism. Analysis focuses on the actions of three central banks from the advanced capitalist core in t…
Making sense of the financialization of households: State of the Art and Beyond
Building on, and going beyond, the state-of-the-art literature, this article aims to advance the analysis and conceptualization of the financialization of households. It argues that there is a need to better conceptualize the household and that the relations between households and other actors in financialized capitalism require further elaboration. Its contribution rests on providing a high-level review of literature and on proposing a relationa…
Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: Interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs
Drawing on the resources of Ecolinguistics and Positive Discourse Analysis, this paper investigates the interdiscursive practices that lifestyle vloggers engage in to construct their expertise and credibility when performing eco-activism. The analysis of the corpus of 30 YouTube vlogs promoting a sustainable lifestyle reveals the interplay of cross-generic conventions that young adult YouTubers employ to manage their lay expertise. Their mediated…
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: Ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: A time for spatial monetary policy
This paper argues that 'spatial monetary policy' may be needed to achieve more territorially balanced economic development. Central banks have been key in fostering financialised economies while also preventing their collapse in times of crisis-a role further strengthened by the coronavirus pandemic. Central banks have thus become the most powerful economic policy-making institutions, just when spatial disparities are likely to deepen. In the con…
Winners And Losers In Coronavirus Times: Financialisation, Financial Chains and Emerging Economic Geographies of The Covid‐19 Pandemic
This paper has two interrelated aims. First, it attempts to sketch a preliminary map of economic winners and losers to highlight the emerging economic geographies of the coronavirus pandemic. Second, it aims to explore the links between these emerging economic geographies and the processes of ‘financialisation’, drawing on the concept of ‘financial chains’. Regarding the first aim, the paper argues that the pandemic‐induced crisis will exacerbate…
New financial geographies of Asia
This special issue examines the recent trends and impacts of financial development in Asia and its implications for regional studies in this rapidly growing region. This editorial introduces the dynamics of the financial landscape in Asia and its growing influence in global finance. Overall, the papers in this special issue highlight the important roles of both the local institutional contexts and global capital markets in shaping new financial g…
Luckily, she's alive: Narratives of vicarious experience told by Polish doctors
Have you wondered why sportspeople die?’ The medical weblog as a popularisation tool
Towards a 'newer' economic geography? Injecting finance and financialisation into economic geographies
This paper argues that the ongoing financial and economic crisis creates an opportunity for economic geography to move to a centre stage of academic debates about the nature of contemporary capitalism. Such a ‘newer’ economic geography needs to start by injecting finance and financialisation into conceptualisations of economies and their uneven geographies and by re-engaging with the issues of value(s), value flows and circuits of value. The pape…
Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neoliberalism, Post-Socialism and the Knowledge Economy
The essay critically examines the prospect of emulating a Silicon Valley-style regional development in the post-socialist context of East-Central Europe. It underlines the problematic nature of the Silicon Valley concept itself and examines the way in which the concept has been ‘domesticated’ in Košice, a peripheral region in eastern Slovakia undergoing a painful post-socialist transformation towards the market economy. In doing so, the essay als…
Financial Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: From Similarity to Diversity
Revisiting the ‘Informational City’: Space of Flows, Polycentricity and the Geography of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in the Emerging Global City-Region of Dublin
n The paper engages with the notion that the new spatial logic, underpinned by information and communication technology (ICT) and the `space of flows?, manifests itself in the form of `informational cities? described as multinuclear spatial structures or polycentric city-regions in the knowledge-based economy. Focusing on the geography of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) the paper argues that there is little evidence of such polycentr…
Central and Eastern Europe a Decade After the Fall of State-socialism: Regional Dimensions of Transition Processes
Following the collapse of state-socialism a decade ago, Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) opted for democracy and market economy. There was a widespread belief that transition to a market economy via neo-liberal 'shock therapy' would lead to a quick closure of the wealth gap with the West. A decade later, however, neo-liberal expectations of convergence under market conditions never materialized. Instead, 'New Europe' has been experi…
Central and Eastern Europe a Decade After the Fall of State-socialism: Regional Dimensions of Transition Processes
Following the collapse of state-socialism a decade ago, Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) opted for democracy and market economy. There was a widespread belief that transition to a market economy via neo-liberal 'shock therapy' would lead to a quick closure of the wealth gap with the West. A decade later, however, neo-liberal expectations of convergence under market conditions never materialized. Instead, 'New Europe' has been experi…
Towards a 'newer' economic geography? Injecting finance and financialisation into economic geographies
This paper argues that the ongoing financial and economic crisis creates an opportunity for economic geography to move to a centre stage of academic debates about the nature of contemporary capitalism. Such a ‘newer’ economic geography needs to start by injecting finance and financialisation into conceptualisations of economies and their uneven geographies and by re-engaging with the issues of value(s), value flows and circuits of value. The pape…
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: A time for spatial monetary policy
This paper argues that 'spatial monetary policy' may be needed to achieve more territorially balanced economic development. Central banks have been key in fostering financialised economies while also preventing their collapse in times of crisis-a role further strengthened by the coronavirus pandemic. Central banks have thus become the most powerful economic policy-making institutions, just when spatial disparities are likely to deepen. In the con…
Financial Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: From Similarity to Diversity
Revisiting the ‘Informational City’: Space of Flows, Polycentricity and the Geography of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in the Emerging Global City-Region of Dublin
n The paper engages with the notion that the new spatial logic, underpinned by information and communication technology (ICT) and the `space of flows?, manifests itself in the form of `informational cities? described as multinuclear spatial structures or polycentric city-regions in the knowledge-based economy. Focusing on the geography of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) the paper argues that there is little evidence of such polycentr…
Winners And Losers In Coronavirus Times: Financialisation, Financial Chains and Emerging Economic Geographies of The Covid‐19 Pandemic
This paper has two interrelated aims. First, it attempts to sketch a preliminary map of economic winners and losers to highlight the emerging economic geographies of the coronavirus pandemic. Second, it aims to explore the links between these emerging economic geographies and the processes of ‘financialisation’, drawing on the concept of ‘financial chains’. Regarding the first aim, the paper argues that the pandemic‐induced crisis will exacerbate…
New financial geographies of Asia
This special issue examines the recent trends and impacts of financial development in Asia and its implications for regional studies in this rapidly growing region. This editorial introduces the dynamics of the financial landscape in Asia and its growing influence in global finance. Overall, the papers in this special issue highlight the important roles of both the local institutional contexts and global capital markets in shaping new financial g…
Financialisation, central banks and ‘new’ state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England
Monetary policies are not usually considered as part of the repertoire of ‘state capitalism’. However, unconventional monetary operations performed by central banks in recent years make this exclusion increasingly problematic. This paper thus explores whether recent central bank interventions should be considered manifestations of ‘new’ state capitalism. Analysis focuses on the actions of three central banks from the advanced capitalist core in t…
Making sense of the financialization of households: State of the Art and Beyond
Building on, and going beyond, the state-of-the-art literature, this article aims to advance the analysis and conceptualization of the financialization of households. It argues that there is a need to better conceptualize the household and that the relations between households and other actors in financialized capitalism require further elaboration. Its contribution rests on providing a high-level review of literature and on proposing a relationa…
Luckily, she's alive: Narratives of vicarious experience told by Polish doctors
Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neoliberalism, Post-Socialism and the Knowledge Economy
The essay critically examines the prospect of emulating a Silicon Valley-style regional development in the post-socialist context of East-Central Europe. It underlines the problematic nature of the Silicon Valley concept itself and examines the way in which the concept has been ‘domesticated’ in Košice, a peripheral region in eastern Slovakia undergoing a painful post-socialist transformation towards the market economy. In doing so, the essay als…
Have you wondered why sportspeople die?’ The medical weblog as a popularisation tool
Central and Eastern Europe a Decade After the Fall of State-socialism: Regional Dimensions of Transition Processes
Following the collapse of state-socialism a decade ago, Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) opted for democracy and market economy. There was a widespread belief that transition to a market economy via neo-liberal 'shock therapy' would lead to a quick closure of the wealth gap with the West. A decade later, however, neo-liberal expectations of convergence under market conditions never materialized. Instead, 'New Europe' has been experi…
Revisiting the ‘Informational City’: Space of Flows, Polycentricity and the Geography of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in the Emerging Global City-Region of Dublin
n The paper engages with the notion that the new spatial logic, underpinned by information and communication technology (ICT) and the `space of flows?, manifests itself in the form of `informational cities? described as multinuclear spatial structures or polycentric city-regions in the knowledge-based economy. Focusing on the geography of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) the paper argues that there is little evidence of such polycentr…
Financial Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: From Similarity to Diversity
Towards a 'newer' economic geography? Injecting finance and financialisation into economic geographies
This paper argues that the ongoing financial and economic crisis creates an opportunity for economic geography to move to a centre stage of academic debates about the nature of contemporary capitalism. Such a ‘newer’ economic geography needs to start by injecting finance and financialisation into conceptualisations of economies and their uneven geographies and by re-engaging with the issues of value(s), value flows and circuits of value. The pape…
Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neoliberalism, Post-Socialism and the Knowledge Economy
The essay critically examines the prospect of emulating a Silicon Valley-style regional development in the post-socialist context of East-Central Europe. It underlines the problematic nature of the Silicon Valley concept itself and examines the way in which the concept has been ‘domesticated’ in Košice, a peripheral region in eastern Slovakia undergoing a painful post-socialist transformation towards the market economy. In doing so, the essay als…
Have you wondered why sportspeople die?’ The medical weblog as a popularisation tool
New financial geographies of Asia
This special issue examines the recent trends and impacts of financial development in Asia and its implications for regional studies in this rapidly growing region. This editorial introduces the dynamics of the financial landscape in Asia and its growing influence in global finance. Overall, the papers in this special issue highlight the important roles of both the local institutional contexts and global capital markets in shaping new financial g…
Luckily, she's alive: Narratives of vicarious experience told by Polish doctors
Winners And Losers In Coronavirus Times: Financialisation, Financial Chains and Emerging Economic Geographies of The Covid‐19 Pandemic
This paper has two interrelated aims. First, it attempts to sketch a preliminary map of economic winners and losers to highlight the emerging economic geographies of the coronavirus pandemic. Second, it aims to explore the links between these emerging economic geographies and the processes of ‘financialisation’, drawing on the concept of ‘financial chains’. Regarding the first aim, the paper argues that the pandemic‐induced crisis will exacerbate…
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: A time for spatial monetary policy
This paper argues that 'spatial monetary policy' may be needed to achieve more territorially balanced economic development. Central banks have been key in fostering financialised economies while also preventing their collapse in times of crisis-a role further strengthened by the coronavirus pandemic. Central banks have thus become the most powerful economic policy-making institutions, just when spatial disparities are likely to deepen. In the con…
Together we can all make little steps towards a better world”: Interdiscursive construction of ecologically engaged voices in YouTube vlogs
Drawing on the resources of Ecolinguistics and Positive Discourse Analysis, this paper investigates the interdiscursive practices that lifestyle vloggers engage in to construct their expertise and credibility when performing eco-activism. The analysis of the corpus of 30 YouTube vlogs promoting a sustainable lifestyle reveals the interplay of cross-generic conventions that young adult YouTubers employ to manage their lay expertise. Their mediated…
Environmental issues in the Anthropocene: Ecolinguistic perspectives across media and genres
Financialisation, central banks and ‘new’ state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England
Monetary policies are not usually considered as part of the repertoire of ‘state capitalism’. However, unconventional monetary operations performed by central banks in recent years make this exclusion increasingly problematic. This paper thus explores whether recent central bank interventions should be considered manifestations of ‘new’ state capitalism. Analysis focuses on the actions of three central banks from the advanced capitalist core in t…
Making sense of the financialization of households: State of the Art and Beyond
Building on, and going beyond, the state-of-the-art literature, this article aims to advance the analysis and conceptualization of the financialization of households. It argues that there is a need to better conceptualize the household and that the relations between households and other actors in financialized capitalism require further elaboration. Its contribution rests on providing a high-level review of literature and on proposing a relationa…
Financial innovation for climate justice: Central banks and transformative ‘creative disruption’
Global financial architectures, including central banks and their monetary policies, are critical to leveraging transformative change for climate justice.Yet, currently central banks are exacerbating rather than mitigating the climate crisis and climate injustices.By following a neoliberal policy paradigm and narrowly interpreted mandates for price stability and financial stability, central banks are focusing on stabilizing a system that is inher…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Finance (4 works)