Andrew Leyshon

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Research Summary

I am Professor of Economic Geography, University of Nottingham (since 1999). My research is undertaken in three main areas: money and finance; alternative financial spaces, and; the musical economy.… read more

Selected Publications

• FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2011. Financializing space, spacing financialization Progress in Human Geography. 35(6), 798-819
• FRENCH, S and LEYSHON, A, 2010. 'These f@#king guys': the terrible waste of a good crisis Envioronment and Planning A. 42(11), 2549-2559
• LEYSHON, A, 2011. Towards a non-economic, economic geography? From black boxes to the cultural curcuit of capital in economic geograpies of firms and managers. In: , LEYSHON, A, LEE, R, SUNLEY, P and MCDOWELL, L, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography SAGE. 381-397
• LEYSHON, A., 2009. The software slump?: digital music, the democratisation of technology, and the decline of the recording studio sector within the musical economy Environment and Planning A. 41(6), 1309-1331

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Current Research

I am Professor of Economic Geography, University of Nottingham (since 1999). My research is undertaken in three main areas: money and finance; alternative financial spaces, and; the musical economy. Current projects include investigations into the geographies of the buy to let market in the UK and the impact of digital technology on the UK music industry. Unpublished versions of research outputs and occasional blogs can be accessed here: http://andrewleyshon.wordpress.com/

I am the (co-) author or (co-) editor of six books (plus three more in preparation) and over 80 academic journal papers and book chapters. I have edited three theme issues of international journals. I have presented over 90 conference papers and seminars.

Research Funding

I have a total career research funding of over £700,000, and have been a Principal Investigator on six major Economic and Social Research Council grants.

Journal Editing

I was Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum (a leading international journal of Human Geography) 1995-2006. I am a member of the editorial board of Environment and Planning A, and of the editorial advisory board of Economy and Society.

Other

I serve on the Management Board of the Global Finance Centre at the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus, and am a member of both of the Research Planning Group and the Steering Committee of the Financial Services Research Forum which is based in Nottingham University Business School. In 2007 I was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

• FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2012. Dead pledges: mortgaging time and space. In: KNORR CETINA, K. and PREDA, A., eds., The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Finance Oxford University Press. 357-375
• LANGLEY, P. and LEYSHON, A, 2012. Financial subjects: culture and materiality Journal of Cultural Economy. 5(4), 369-373
• LEYSHON, A., 2012. Idő-tér [és digitális] sűrűsödés: szoftformátumok, zenei hálózatok és a zeneipar újjászerveődése Replika. 78, 45-76
• LEYSHON, A, LEE, R, SUNLEY, P and MCDOWELL, L, 2011. Introduction. In: LEYSHON, A, LEE, R, MCDOWELL, L and SUNLEY, P, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography SAGE. 1-20
• LEYSHON, A, 2011. Towards a non-economic, economic geography? From black boxes to the cultural curcuit of capital in economic geograpies of firms and managers. In: , LEYSHON, A, LEE, R, SUNLEY, P and MCDOWELL, L, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography SAGE. 381-397
• FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2011. Financializing space, spacing financialization Progress in Human Geography. 35(6), 798-819
• FRENCH, S and LEYSHON, A, 2010. 'These f@#king guys': the terrible waste of a good crisis Envioronment and Planning A. 42(11), 2549-2559
• LEE, R., CLARK, G. L., POLLARD, J. and LEYSHON, A., 2009. The remit of financial geography-before and after the crisis Journal of Economic Geography. VOL 9(NUMBER 5), 723-747
• LEYSHON, A. and FRENCH, S., 2009. 'We all live in a Robbie Fowler house': the geographies of the buy to let market in the UK British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 11(3), 438-460
• LEYSHON, A., 2009. The software slump?: digital music, the democratisation of technology, and the decline of the recording studio sector within the musical economy Environment and Planning A. 41(6), 1309-1331
• FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 2009. A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007-2008 financial crisis Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 2(2), 287-302
• LEYSHON, A., FRENCH, S. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2008. Financial exclusion and the geography of bank and building society branch closure in Britain Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33(4), 447-465
• FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2008. "All gone now": the material, discursive and political erasure of bank and building society branches in Britain Antipode. 40(1), 79-101
• LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 2007. The Capitalization of Almost Everything: The Future of Finance and Capitalism Theory, Culture & Society. VOL 24(NUMB 7/8), 97-115
• LEYSHON, A., SIGNORETTA, P., KNIGHTS, D., ALFEROFF, C. and BURTON, D., 2006. Walking with moneylenders: The ecology of the UK home-collected credit industry Urban Studies. VOL 43(NUMB 1), 161-186
• DANIELS, P.W., LEYSHON, A, BRADSHAW, M and BEAVERSTOCK, J.V., eds., 2006. Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections 1st ed. Routledge.
• LEYSHON, A., WEBB, P., FRENCH, S., THRIFT, N. and CREWE, L., 2005. On the reproduction of the musical economy after the Internet Media Culture & Society. 27(2), 177-209
• LEYSHON, A., FRENCH, S., THRIFT, N., CREWE, L. and WEBB, P., 2005. Accounting for e-commerce: abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital Economy and Society. 34(3), 428-450
• BURTON, D., KNIGHTS, D., LEYSHON, A., ALFEROFF, C. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2005. Consumption denied? The decline of industrial branch insurance Journal of Consumer Culture. 5(2), 181-205
• FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2004. The new, new financial system? Towards a conceptualization of financial reintermediation Review of International Political Economy. 11(2), 263-288
• LEYSHON, A., BURTON, D., KNIGHTS, D., ALFEROFF, C. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2004. Towards an ecology of retail financial services: understanding the persistence of door-to-door credit and insurance providers Environment and Planning A. 36(4), 625-646
• FRENCH, S., CREWE, L., LEYSHON, A., WEBB, P. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Putting e-commerce in its place: Reflections on the impact of the Internet on the cultural industries. In: Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture Routledge, London and New York. 54-71
• BURTON, D., KNIGHTS, D., LEYSHON, A., ALFEROFF, C. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2004. Making a Market: the UK Retail Financial Services Industry and the Rise of the Complex Sub-prime Credit Market Competition and Change. VOL 8(NUMB 1), 3-26
• FRENCH, S., CREWE, L., LEYSHON, A., WEBB, P. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Putting e-commerce in its place: Reflections on the impact of the Internet on the cultural industries. In: Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture Routledge, London and New York. 54-71
• BODDY, M., BASSETT, K., FRENCH, S., GRIFFITHS, R., LAMBERT, C., LEYSHON, A., SMITH, I., STEWART, M. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Competitiveness and cohesion in a prosperous city region: the case of Bristol. In: City Matters: Competitiveness, Cohesion and Urban Governance Policy Press, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 51-69
• ALFEROFF, C., KNIGHTS, D., LEYSHON, A. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2004. The `Let them eat cake' strategy for `industrial branch' insurance clients: Reflecting on the Demise of a Sector in Financial Services Social Policy and Society. VOL 3(PART 4), 353-364
• LEE, R., LEYSHON, A., ALDRIDGE, T., TOOKE, J., WILLIAMS, C. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Making geographies and histories? Constructing local circuits of value Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. VOL 22(PART 4), 595-618
• LEYSHON, A., 2004. The Limits to Capital and Geographies of Money Antipode. VOL 36(NO 3), 461-469
• WILLIAMS, C., ALDRIDGE, T., LEE, R., LEYSHON, A., THRIFT, N. and TOOKE, J., 2004. The role of the Third Sector in paving a 'Third Way' International Journal of Community Currency Research. 4,
• LEYSHON, A., 2003. Scary monsters? Software formats, peer-to-peer networks, and the spectre of the gift Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 21(5), 533-558
• LEYSHON, A. and LEE, R., 2003. Alternative economic spaces: an introduction. In: Alternative Economic Spaces 1-26
• FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2003. City of money? Financial services in the Bristol city-region. In: Urban Transformation: shaping the competitive city of the future 32-51
• LEE, R. and LEYSHON, A., 2003. Conclusions: re-making geographies and the construction of 'spaces of hope'. In: Alternative Economic Spaces 193-198
• LEE, R., LEYSHON, A., ALDRIDGE, T., THRIFT, N., TOOKE, J. and WILLIAMS, C., 2003. Constructing Alternative Circuits of Value - the case of Local Currency Systems (LCSs). In: The Institutions of Local Development
• LEE, R. and LEYSHON, A., 2003. Preface: geography, diversity, change and ends. In: Alternative Economic Spaces ix-x
• LEYSHON, A., 2001. Time - space (and digital) compression: software formats, musical networks, and the reorganisation of the music industry Environment and Planning A. 33(1), 49-78
• WILLIAMS, C. C., ALDRIDGE, T., LEE, R., LEYSHON, A., THRIFT, N. and TOOKE, J., 2001. Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS): a tool for community renewal? Community, Work and Family. VOL 4(PART 3), 355-361
• LEYSHON, A., 2001. Geographical persepctives on the Asian economic crisis - editors note Geoforum. 32(1), 1-1
• WILLIAMS, C. C., ALDRIDGE, T., LEE, R., LEYSHON, A., THRIFT, N. and TOOKE, J., 2001. Bridges into Work? An Evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS) Policy Studies. VOL 22(PART 2), 119-132
• ALDRIDGE, T., TOOKE, J., LEE, R., LEYSHON, A., THRIFT, N. and WILLIAMS, C., 2001. Recasting Work: the Example of Local Exchange Trading Schemes Work, Employment & Society. VOL 15(PART 3), 565-580
• LEYSHON, A. and POLLARD, J., 2000. Geographies of industrial convergence: the case of retail banking Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. VOL 25(PART 2), 203-220
• LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 1999. Lists come alive: electronic systems of knowledge and the rise of credit-scoring in retail banking Economy and Society. VOL 28(NUMBER 3), 434-466
• THRIFT, N., LEYSHON, A. and PRATT, J., 1999. Inside/outside: geographies of financial inclusion and exclusion in Britain Urban Studies.
• LEYSHON, A., MATLESS, D.S. and REVILL, G., eds., 1998. The Place of Music
• LEYSHON, A., THRIFT, N. and PRATT, J., 1998. Reading financial services: texts, consumers, and financial literacy Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. VOL 16(NUMBER 1), 29-56
• LEYSHON, A., 1998. Geographies of money and finance III Progress in Human Geography. VOL 22(NUMBER 3), 433-446
• LEYSHON, A., 1997. Geographies of money and finance II Progress in Human Geography. VOL 21(NUMBER 3), 381-392
• LEYSHON, A., 1997. Globalisation, conventions of restructuring and the regional reorganisation of banking In: Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers.
• LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 1997. Spatial financial flows and the growth of the modern city International Social Science Journal. VOL 49(NUMBER 1), 41-54
• LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 1997. Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation, Routledge, London and New York.
• LEYSHON, A. and POLLARD, J., 1996. Globalisation, conventions of restructuring and the regional reorganisation of banking In: Conference on Crises of Global Regulation and Governance.
• LEYSHON, A., 1996. Editorial: critical reviews Geoforum. 27, 425-426
• LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 1996. Financial exclusion and the shifting boundaries of the financial system Environment and Planning A. VOL 28(NUMBER 7), 1150-1156