Shaun French

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Research Summary

Research interests in the geographies of economic practice and knowledge. Epistemic communities, institutions, professions and spaces of the production and circulation of business knowledge and… read more

Selected Publications

• FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2011. Financializing Space, Spacing Financialization Progress in Human Geography. 35(6), 798-819 (In Press.)
• FRENCH, S., LAI, K. and LEYSHON, A., 2010. Banking on Financial Services. In: COE, N. and JONES, A., eds., The Economic Geography of the UK London: Sage. (In Press.)
• CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., eds., 2010. Key Methods in Geography 2nd ed. Sage. (In Press.)
• FRENCH, S., 2009. Risk: Mastering Time and Space. In: HOLLOWAY, S.L., RICE, S.P., VALENTINE, G. and CLIFFORD, N., eds., Key Concepts in Geography 2nd ed. London, Sage. 392-404

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Current Research

Research interests in the geographies of economic practice and knowledge. Epistemic communities, institutions, professions and spaces of the production and circulation of business knowledge and praxis. Specific research has focused on three areas. First, financial services and money, and in particular the long-term insurance sector (life assurance, health insurance and pensions); socially responsible investment; and financial centres. The latter involving an engagement with wider theories of industrial clustering and agglomeration. Second, work on financial services professionals has led to a more general interest in professions, professionals and business knowledge communities. I am especially interested in the current importance of 'softer' professional groups such as human resources and marketing. Third, e-commerce and the increasing significance of software and information communications technologies for business. I am interested in the ways in which business practice becomes embedded in technology and the ways in which hardware and software themselves produce new economic practices and relationships.

• FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2011. Financializing Space, Spacing Financialization Progress in Human Geography. 35(6), 798-819 (In Press.)
• SWAIN, A., MYKHNENKO, V. and FRENCH, S., 2010. The Corruption Industry and Transition: Neoliberalising Post-Soviet Space?. In: BIRCH, K. and MYKHNENKO, V., eds., The rise and fall of neoliberalism: The collapse of an economic order? London: Zed Books. (In Press.)
• FRENCH, S., LAI, K. and LEYSHON, A., 2010. Banking on Financial Services. In: COE, N. and JONES, A., eds., The Economic Geography of the UK London: Sage. (In Press.)
• CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., eds., 2010. Key Methods in Geography 2nd ed. Sage. (In Press.)
• FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2010. 'These f@#king guys': The terrible waste of a good crisis Environment & Planning A. 42(11), 2549-2559
• CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., 2010. Getting started in geographical research. In: CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., eds., Key Methods in Geography 2nd ed. London: Sage. (In Press.)
• 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 & Society. 2, 287-302
• 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 & International Relations. 11, 438-460
• FRENCH, S. and KNEALE, J., 2009. Excessive financialization: Insuring lifestyles, enlivening subjects and everyday spaces of biosocial excess Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 27(6), 1030-1053
• FRENCH, S., 2009. Risk: Mastering Time and Space. In: HOLLOWAY, S.L., RICE, S.P., VALENTINE, G. and CLIFFORD, N., eds., Key Concepts in Geography 2nd ed. London, Sage. 392-404
• KNEALE, J. and FRENCH, S., 2008. Mapping alcohol: Health, policy and the geographies of problem drinking in Britain Drugs: education, prevention & policy. 15(3), 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., 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, New Series. 33(4), 447-465
• LEYSHON, A and SIGNORETTA, P. AND FRENCH, S., 2006. The changing geography of British bank and building society branch networks. In: HOUSE OF COMMONS TREASURY COMMITTEE, ed., Financial Inclusion: credit, savings, advice and insurance (HC 848-II). Volume II. House of Commons. 487-496
• 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
• BAILEY, N. and FRENCH, S., 2005. The locational dynamics of financial services in regional cities. In: Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• FRENCH, S., 2004. Mapping the e-commerce knowledge community At: ABC Media Magazine
• FRENCH, S., 2004. Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change Journal of Economic Geography. VOL 4(NUMBER 2), 219-220
• 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
• FRENCH, S., 2002. Gamekeepers and gamekeeping: assuring Bristol's place within life underwriting Environment and Planning A. 34(3), 513-542
• THRIFT, N. and FRENCH, S., 2002. The automatic production of space Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 27(3), 309-335
• FRENCH, S., 2001. Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change Journal of Economic Geography. 4, 1-2
• FRENCH, S., 2000. Re-scaling the economic geography of knowledge and information: constructing life assurance markets Geoforum. VOL 31(NUMBER 1), 101-119