Gendering capital: Financial crisis, financialization and (an agenda for) economic geography

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 403-423

  Pollard, Jane ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

economic geography; feminist theory; financial crises; financial geography; postcolonialism

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; FEMINISM; FINANCIAL CRISIS; POST-COLONIALISM;

EID: 84877675032     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512462270     Document Type: Article

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