Paul Langley
Professor
Department of Geography
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Paul Langley is Professor of Economic Geography. Prior to joining the Department in 2011, he was Professor of International Relations at University of York, and Senior Lecturer in Politics at Northumbria University. He is presently Programme Director for BA(Hons) and MArts Geography, and previously convened the Department's Culture-Economy-Life (CEL) research cluster.
Research Interest
Paul's research contributes to the critical study of financial markets and financialization processes in economic geography and across the social sciences. He is the author of three monographs - World Financial Orders (Routledge, 2002/2013), The Everyday Life of Global Finance (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Liquidity Lost (Oxford University Press, 2015) - and has received research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the British Academy.
Publications
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Langley, P. & Leyshon, A. Platform Capitalism: The Intermediation and Capitalisation of Digital Economic Circulation. Finance and Society. 2016.
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Langley, P. Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A cultural economy. Economic Geography. 2016;92:301-321.
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Langley, P. & Leyshon, A. Capitalising on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding. Environment and Planning A. 2017;49:1019-1039.
