Jane Pollard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Pollard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollard |
| SIGNATURE | POLLARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3659-7473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 724 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Driven to Debt: Social Reproduction and (Auto)Mobility in Los Angeles
Since the financial crisis of 2008, subprime lending in the United States has flourished in auto loan markets. This article charts, for the first time, some of the contours of this underresearched part of the subprime landscape. In so doing, it makes two contributions. First, it widens and resituates debates about subprime lending by building on a suite of feminist political economic scholarship to argue that the sites, practices, and agents of s…
An evolutionary perspective on the British banking crisis
Developing an evolutionary perspective towards the changing anatomy of the banking sector reveals the enduring tensions and contradictions between spatial centralisation and the possibilities for decentralisation before, during and after the British banking crisis. The shift from banking boom to crisis in 2007 is conceptualised as a significant and on-going moment in the long-term evolution of the historical institutional–spatial dominance of Lon…
Brexit and the wider UK economy
Resetting Neoliberal Values: Lawmaking in Malaysia's Islamic Finance
In economic geography and cognate disciplines, a good deal of attention has been paid to the roles of investors, lenders, analysts, advisors, actuaries, and other skilled financial professionals in forming and reproducing financial and other markets. Relatively neglected, by contrast, is the work of lawyers, judges, and other legal agents. This article redresses this imbalance by making two contributions. First, we highlight the role of legal lab…
Geographies of corporate philanthropy: The Northern Rock Foundation
The paper contributes to literature on the geographies of corporate philanthropy through a case study of the origins, growth and decline of the Northern Rock bank's charitable foundation. Analysis reveals the complex, geographically-embedded nature of philanthropic motivations and impacts. It demonstrates that investment in home and community by philanthropists was part of a regionally-inscribed business-model of excessive risk taking that brough…
Flourishing or floundering? Policing the boundaries of economic geography
The study of economic geography is thriving. After decades of arguing for the importance of understanding the spatialities of the economy, many economists have taken heed and tried to incorporate some geographic insights into their analyses. The once-radical assertion that space, place and flows shape economies is increasingly recognized, understood and valued, it seems, by governments, think-tanks and policy-makers of all stripes (Barnes, 2018; …
Banking on exclusion: Data disclosure and geographies of UK personal lending markets
In 2013, the UK Government announced that seven of the nation's largest banks had agreed to publish their lending data at the local level across Great Britain. The release of such area based lending data has been welcomed by advocacy groups and policy makers keen to better understand and remedy geographies of financial exclusion. This paper makes three contributions to debates about financial exclusion. First, it provides the first exploratory sp…
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers a frontier positioning that facilitates new social practices from the integration of financial knowledge of Western world cities and Shariah authority claimed by Gulf cities. Based on primary data, the paper shows that transna…
Islamic charitable infrastructure and giving in East London: Everyday economic-development geographies in practice
This article extends research exploring progressive models of reproducing economic life by reporting on research into some of the infrastructure, practices and motivations for Islamic charitable giving in London. In so doing the article: (i) makes visible sets of values, practices and institutions usually hidden in an otherwise widely researched international financial centre; (ii) identifies multiple, hard-to-research civic actors who are mobili…
Financialisation: Roots and repercussions
Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies
This article examines the governance of Islamic finance in two non-Muslim-majority sites of its expansion, the United States and the United Kingdom. An alternative form of economic rationality is being constructed and practiced across diverse sociospatial contexts to produce what we term cosmopolitan financial geographies. Building from recent debates about territoriality, embeddedness, and relationality in economic geography, we respond to calls…
Continuity and Evolution in an Old Industrial Region: The Labour Market Dynamics of the Rise and Fall of Northern Rock
Dawley S., Marshall N., Pike A., Pollard J. and Tomaney J. Continuity and evolution in an old industrial region: the labour market dynamics of the rise and fall of Northern Rock, Regional Studies. The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high-profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. An evolutionary geographical political economy approach demonstrates that Northern Rock's growth and decline was shaped by its location in an old industrial region…
Gendering capital: Financial crisis, financialization and (an agenda for) economic geography
This paper argues that economic-geographical analyses of the recent financial crisis might learn from more than three decades of feminist scholarship on economic development. Feminist scholarship: (1) contributes to the ongoing project of rethinking how economic geography is conceived and practised; (2) provides some analytical resources to inform the production of more complex, less partial geographies of financialization; (3) is defined by its …
Postcolonial Economies
About the editors Jane Pollard is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. Her research interests embrace geographies of money and finance and their intersection with regional economic development. She is a co-editor of Knowledge, Space, Economy (2000) and has published extensively in, among other journals, Antipode, Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum and …
Placing the run on northern rock
The collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 was the first major run on a UK retail bank since 1866. The Northern Rock case is exemplary on two fronts. First, described at the time of its collapse as an example of an aggressive business model employed by naïve management, it is now clear that Northern Rock marked the beginning of and provides insights into the credit crunch and wider global banking crisis. Second, Northern Rock provides a distinct conte…
Economic Geographies of Financialization
This article argues that financialization-shorthand for the growing influence of capital markets, their intermediaries, and processes in contemporary economic and political life-generates an analytical opportunity and political economic imperative to move finance into the heart of economic geographic analysis. Drawing upon long-standing concerns about the relatively marginal location of finance in economic geography, we emphasize the integral rol…
The remit of financial geography--before and after the crisis
Who could have thought that banks would become nationalised, that state debts would reach historical levels, that bulge bracket investment banks would go bankrupt and that the masters of the universe would be so widely vilified? Each in their own way, the four reflections collected in this article address the new issues raised by the financial meltdown for the past and future of financial geography. They also reflect back on the issues raised in …
Economic geography under postcolonial scrutiny
Because the economy is not found as an empirical object among other worldly things, in order for it to be 'seen' by the human perceptual apparatus it has to undergo a process, crucial for science, of representational mapping. This is doubling, but with a difference; the map shifts the point of view so that viewers can see the whole as if from the outside, in a way that allows them, from a specific position inside, to find their bearings. ( Buck-M…
Islamic banking and finance: Postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography
A significant trend in global finance over the last 15 years has been the rapid growth of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), which has gathered momentum to become a significant feature of the financial landscape in the twenty‐first century. This paper explores the increasingly ‘Western’ character of IBF and has two key aims. First, we address the remarkably under‐theorized status of IBF by considering how various economic geographical and social …
Firm finances, weather derivatives and geography
Making Money, (Re)Making Firms: Microbusiness Financial Networks in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Although economic-geographical research has recently been the subject of 'cultural', 'institutional', and 'relational' turns that stress the situated, relational, and embedded nature of economic activity, these concerns are usually elaborated through analyses of industrial, not financial, circuits of capital. In this paper I address the neglect of the financial elements of production networks by exploring the geographies of some of the financial …
The 'Global' in the City Economy: Multicultural Economic Development in Birmingham
This article draws on critiques of 'global cities' to conceptualize Birmingham, the UK's second largest metropole, as a 'global' city by highlighting forms of economic globalization that draw on the city's residents, their histories and their social and cultural networks. The article illustrates some of the diversity and significance of minority ethnic economic activity within Birmingham and the potential this holds for its future economic develo…
From Industrial District to 'Urban Village'? Manufacturing, Money and Consumption in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Cities now occupy a central role in economic regeneration. Literature on such regeneration has focused on the supply side, neo-liberal leanings of projects, the centrality of cultural production and consumption, and the undemocratic, exclusionary geographies being produced through such regeneration schemes. This paper explores how urban regeneration strategies, premised on promoting cultural production and consumption, are being experienced by on…
Small firm finance and economic geography
This paper argues that firm finance is something of a ‘black-box’ in economic geography, a largely take-for-granted aspect of production. Focusing on small firms, the paper argues that firm finance warrants analysis, not simply to ‘add’ to knowledge and to form another sub-discipline of economic geography, but in order to further develop and refine our understanding of uneven development. The paper explores the neglect of firm finance in economic…
Nostalgia for the future: The geoeconomics and geopolitics of the Euro
Economic Geographies of Financialization
This article argues that financialization-shorthand for the growing influence of capital markets, their intermediaries, and processes in contemporary economic and political life-generates an analytical opportunity and political economic imperative to move finance into the heart of economic geographic analysis. Drawing upon long-standing concerns about the relatively marginal location of finance in economic geography, we emphasize the integral rol…
Economic geography under postcolonial scrutiny
Because the economy is not found as an empirical object among other worldly things, in order for it to be 'seen' by the human perceptual apparatus it has to undergo a process, crucial for science, of representational mapping. This is doubling, but with a difference; the map shifts the point of view so that viewers can see the whole as if from the outside, in a way that allows them, from a specific position inside, to find their bearings. ( Buck-M…
Islamic banking and finance: Postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography
A significant trend in global finance over the last 15 years has been the rapid growth of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), which has gathered momentum to become a significant feature of the financial landscape in the twenty‐first century. This paper explores the increasingly ‘Western’ character of IBF and has two key aims. First, we address the remarkably under‐theorized status of IBF by considering how various economic geographical and social …
Gendering capital: Financial crisis, financialization and (an agenda for) economic geography
This paper argues that economic-geographical analyses of the recent financial crisis might learn from more than three decades of feminist scholarship on economic development. Feminist scholarship: (1) contributes to the ongoing project of rethinking how economic geography is conceived and practised; (2) provides some analytical resources to inform the production of more complex, less partial geographies of financialization; (3) is defined by its …
The remit of financial geography--before and after the crisis
Who could have thought that banks would become nationalised, that state debts would reach historical levels, that bulge bracket investment banks would go bankrupt and that the masters of the universe would be so widely vilified? Each in their own way, the four reflections collected in this article address the new issues raised by the financial meltdown for the past and future of financial geography. They also reflect back on the issues raised in …
Shades of Grey? Geographers and Policy
Continuity and Evolution in an Old Industrial Region: The Labour Market Dynamics of the Rise and Fall of Northern Rock
Dawley S., Marshall N., Pike A., Pollard J. and Tomaney J. Continuity and evolution in an old industrial region: the labour market dynamics of the rise and fall of Northern Rock, Regional Studies. The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high-profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. An evolutionary geographical political economy approach demonstrates that Northern Rock's growth and decline was shaped by its location in an old industrial region…
Globalization from below: Birmingham – postcolonial workshop of the world
Birmingham is re–inventing itself through a strategy of prestige city centre regeneration. Drawing on the theoretical lenses of transnationalism and postcolonialism, we sketch one alternative vision of Birmingham’s economic place in the world. Through a focus on ‘ethnic diversity’, and the subsequent distinctiveness of the city’s economy, this paper re–visions Birmingham as a ‘global’ city. Reflecting on a ‘politics of scale’, we highlight a ‘glo…
Small firm finance and economic geography
This paper argues that firm finance is something of a ‘black-box’ in economic geography, a largely take-for-granted aspect of production. Focusing on small firms, the paper argues that firm finance warrants analysis, not simply to ‘add’ to knowledge and to form another sub-discipline of economic geography, but in order to further develop and refine our understanding of uneven development. The paper explores the neglect of firm finance in economic…
Financialisation: Roots and repercussions
Placing the run on northern rock
The collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 was the first major run on a UK retail bank since 1866. The Northern Rock case is exemplary on two fronts. First, described at the time of its collapse as an example of an aggressive business model employed by naïve management, it is now clear that Northern Rock marked the beginning of and provides insights into the credit crunch and wider global banking crisis. Second, Northern Rock provides a distinct conte…
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers a frontier positioning that facilitates new social practices from the integration of financial knowledge of Western world cities and Shariah authority claimed by Gulf cities. Based on primary data, the paper shows that transna…
Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies
This article examines the governance of Islamic finance in two non-Muslim-majority sites of its expansion, the United States and the United Kingdom. An alternative form of economic rationality is being constructed and practiced across diverse sociospatial contexts to produce what we term cosmopolitan financial geographies. Building from recent debates about territoriality, embeddedness, and relationality in economic geography, we respond to calls…
A Tale of Twelve Cities: Metropolitan Employment Change in Dynamic Industries in the 1980s
The last 15 years have seen considerable debate over what constitutes the export-oriented motor of regional economies. Three kinds of activity are cited as the new generators of growth: industries handling information and advanced management functions, which we term “intellectual capital” industries; high technology, or what we term “innovation-based” industries; and a group of flexible manufacturing industries with high levels of product differe…
Driven to Debt: Social Reproduction and (Auto)Mobility in Los Angeles
Since the financial crisis of 2008, subprime lending in the United States has flourished in auto loan markets. This article charts, for the first time, some of the contours of this underresearched part of the subprime landscape. In so doing, it makes two contributions. First, it widens and resituates debates about subprime lending by building on a suite of feminist political economic scholarship to argue that the sites, practices, and agents of s…
Firm finances, weather derivatives and geography
The 'Global' in the City Economy: Multicultural Economic Development in Birmingham
This article draws on critiques of 'global cities' to conceptualize Birmingham, the UK's second largest metropole, as a 'global' city by highlighting forms of economic globalization that draw on the city's residents, their histories and their social and cultural networks. The article illustrates some of the diversity and significance of minority ethnic economic activity within Birmingham and the potential this holds for its future economic develo…
Nostalgia for the future: The geoeconomics and geopolitics of the Euro
Islamic charitable infrastructure and giving in East London: Everyday economic-development geographies in practice
This article extends research exploring progressive models of reproducing economic life by reporting on research into some of the infrastructure, practices and motivations for Islamic charitable giving in London. In so doing the article: (i) makes visible sets of values, practices and institutions usually hidden in an otherwise widely researched international financial centre; (ii) identifies multiple, hard-to-research civic actors who are mobili…
The contradictions of flexibility: Labour control and resistance in the Los Angeles banking industry
Brexit and the wider UK economy
From Industrial District to 'Urban Village'? Manufacturing, Money and Consumption in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Cities now occupy a central role in economic regeneration. Literature on such regeneration has focused on the supply side, neo-liberal leanings of projects, the centrality of cultural production and consumption, and the undemocratic, exclusionary geographies being produced through such regeneration schemes. This paper explores how urban regeneration strategies, premised on promoting cultural production and consumption, are being experienced by on…
Capitalising on knowledge
Resetting Neoliberal Values: Lawmaking in Malaysia's Islamic Finance
In economic geography and cognate disciplines, a good deal of attention has been paid to the roles of investors, lenders, analysts, advisors, actuaries, and other skilled financial professionals in forming and reproducing financial and other markets. Relatively neglected, by contrast, is the work of lawyers, judges, and other legal agents. This article redresses this imbalance by making two contributions. First, we highlight the role of legal lab…
Beyond the Margins of Economics: Geographers, Economists, and Policy Relevance
A series of recent articles have debated the 'policy relevance' of economic geography. Whilst there is a long history of debates in geography about ‘relevance’, the recent articles about the status of economic geography have tended to focus on policy audiences and to compare economic geography with its social science neighbour, economics. In the context of calls for economic geographers to stand on their own terms, 'out of the long shadow of econ…
Hedgehogs and the Retroaction Theory of Forgetting
3 hedgehogs permitted to hibernate for five days after learning a multiple-Y maze did not differ in post-hibernation scores from 3 control animals maintained in a wakeful state for the same period. Non-confirmation of a retroaction hypothesis was attributed to failure of controls to forget
Water Deprivation and Performance in the Closed Field Test
Twenty male and 20 female Wistar rats were run in the Hebb‐Williams closed field test after 6, 12, 24 or 47 hr. deprivation of water. Performance was divided into two major components representing problem‐solving and exploratory behaviour. Increasing the degree of water deprivation had only a slight effect on problem‐solving but a marked effect on exploration. It was concluded that variations in motivational level have their effects on competing …
The contradictions of flexibility: Labour control and resistance in the Los Angeles banking industry
Lloyd's of London: Some Urban and Regional Implications of (Re)Insurance Losses
A Tale of Twelve Cities: Metropolitan Employment Change in Dynamic Industries in the 1980s
The last 15 years have seen considerable debate over what constitutes the export-oriented motor of regional economies. Three kinds of activity are cited as the new generators of growth: industries handling information and advanced management functions, which we term “intellectual capital” industries; high technology, or what we term “innovation-based” industries; and a group of flexible manufacturing industries with high levels of product differe…
Shades of Grey? Geographers and Policy
Capitalising on knowledge
Beyond the Margins of Economics: Geographers, Economists, and Policy Relevance
A series of recent articles have debated the 'policy relevance' of economic geography. Whilst there is a long history of debates in geography about ‘relevance’, the recent articles about the status of economic geography have tended to focus on policy audiences and to compare economic geography with its social science neighbour, economics. In the context of calls for economic geographers to stand on their own terms, 'out of the long shadow of econ…
Nostalgia for the future: The geoeconomics and geopolitics of the Euro
Globalization from below: Birmingham – postcolonial workshop of the world
Birmingham is re–inventing itself through a strategy of prestige city centre regeneration. Drawing on the theoretical lenses of transnationalism and postcolonialism, we sketch one alternative vision of Birmingham’s economic place in the world. Through a focus on ‘ethnic diversity’, and the subsequent distinctiveness of the city’s economy, this paper re–visions Birmingham as a ‘global’ city. Reflecting on a ‘politics of scale’, we highlight a ‘glo…
Small firm finance and economic geography
This paper argues that firm finance is something of a ‘black-box’ in economic geography, a largely take-for-granted aspect of production. Focusing on small firms, the paper argues that firm finance warrants analysis, not simply to ‘add’ to knowledge and to form another sub-discipline of economic geography, but in order to further develop and refine our understanding of uneven development. The paper explores the neglect of firm finance in economic…
From Industrial District to 'Urban Village'? Manufacturing, Money and Consumption in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Cities now occupy a central role in economic regeneration. Literature on such regeneration has focused on the supply side, neo-liberal leanings of projects, the centrality of cultural production and consumption, and the undemocratic, exclusionary geographies being produced through such regeneration schemes. This paper explores how urban regeneration strategies, premised on promoting cultural production and consumption, are being experienced by on…
The 'Global' in the City Economy: Multicultural Economic Development in Birmingham
This article draws on critiques of 'global cities' to conceptualize Birmingham, the UK's second largest metropole, as a 'global' city by highlighting forms of economic globalization that draw on the city's residents, their histories and their social and cultural networks. The article illustrates some of the diversity and significance of minority ethnic economic activity within Birmingham and the potential this holds for its future economic develo…
Islamic banking and finance: Postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography
A significant trend in global finance over the last 15 years has been the rapid growth of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), which has gathered momentum to become a significant feature of the financial landscape in the twenty‐first century. This paper explores the increasingly ‘Western’ character of IBF and has two key aims. First, we address the remarkably under‐theorized status of IBF by considering how various economic geographical and social …
Firm finances, weather derivatives and geography
Making Money, (Re)Making Firms: Microbusiness Financial Networks in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Although economic-geographical research has recently been the subject of 'cultural', 'institutional', and 'relational' turns that stress the situated, relational, and embedded nature of economic activity, these concerns are usually elaborated through analyses of industrial, not financial, circuits of capital. In this paper I address the neglect of the financial elements of production networks by exploring the geographies of some of the financial …
The remit of financial geography--before and after the crisis
Who could have thought that banks would become nationalised, that state debts would reach historical levels, that bulge bracket investment banks would go bankrupt and that the masters of the universe would be so widely vilified? Each in their own way, the four reflections collected in this article address the new issues raised by the financial meltdown for the past and future of financial geography. They also reflect back on the issues raised in …
Economic geography under postcolonial scrutiny
Because the economy is not found as an empirical object among other worldly things, in order for it to be 'seen' by the human perceptual apparatus it has to undergo a process, crucial for science, of representational mapping. This is doubling, but with a difference; the map shifts the point of view so that viewers can see the whole as if from the outside, in a way that allows them, from a specific position inside, to find their bearings. ( Buck-M…
Economic Geographies of Financialization
This article argues that financialization-shorthand for the growing influence of capital markets, their intermediaries, and processes in contemporary economic and political life-generates an analytical opportunity and political economic imperative to move finance into the heart of economic geographic analysis. Drawing upon long-standing concerns about the relatively marginal location of finance in economic geography, we emphasize the integral rol…
Postcolonial Economies
About the editors Jane Pollard is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. Her research interests embrace geographies of money and finance and their intersection with regional economic development. She is a co-editor of Knowledge, Space, Economy (2000) and has published extensively in, among other journals, Antipode, Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum and …
Placing the run on northern rock
The collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 was the first major run on a UK retail bank since 1866. The Northern Rock case is exemplary on two fronts. First, described at the time of its collapse as an example of an aggressive business model employed by naïve management, it is now clear that Northern Rock marked the beginning of and provides insights into the credit crunch and wider global banking crisis. Second, Northern Rock provides a distinct conte…
Continuity and Evolution in an Old Industrial Region: The Labour Market Dynamics of the Rise and Fall of Northern Rock
Dawley S., Marshall N., Pike A., Pollard J. and Tomaney J. Continuity and evolution in an old industrial region: the labour market dynamics of the rise and fall of Northern Rock, Regional Studies. The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high-profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. An evolutionary geographical political economy approach demonstrates that Northern Rock's growth and decline was shaped by its location in an old industrial region…
Gendering capital: Financial crisis, financialization and (an agenda for) economic geography
This paper argues that economic-geographical analyses of the recent financial crisis might learn from more than three decades of feminist scholarship on economic development. Feminist scholarship: (1) contributes to the ongoing project of rethinking how economic geography is conceived and practised; (2) provides some analytical resources to inform the production of more complex, less partial geographies of financialization; (3) is defined by its …
Financialisation: Roots and repercussions
Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies
This article examines the governance of Islamic finance in two non-Muslim-majority sites of its expansion, the United States and the United Kingdom. An alternative form of economic rationality is being constructed and practiced across diverse sociospatial contexts to produce what we term cosmopolitan financial geographies. Building from recent debates about territoriality, embeddedness, and relationality in economic geography, we respond to calls…
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