"All gone now": The material, discursive and political erasure of bank and building society branches in Britain

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Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-101

  French, Shaun ^a   Leyshon, Andrew ^a   Signoretta, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank and building society branches; Financial exclusion; Neoliberalism; Public policy

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL POLICY; FINANCIAL PROVISION; MARGINALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; POLICY STRATEGY; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39449086372     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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