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Finance/security/life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Paul Langley*
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Durham University, UK
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Corresponding author: Paul Langley, Department ofGeography, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.Email: [email protected]
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What is the contemporary relation between finance and security? This essay encourages further research into the securitization of finance by developing the notion of ‘finance/security/life’. A focus on the intersections of finance/security/life will be shown to prompt a broadened range of critical, cross-disciplinary concerns with the various ways in which financial markets are positioned as vital to securing wealth, welfare and wellbeing.

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Forum: Conceptualising finance-security relations
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