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Dublin, Ireland, 7-10 June 2022 Theme 04: Financial Geographies (Theme leaders: Janelle Knox-Hayes (MIT) and Dariusz Wójcik (Oxford University)) Special Session SS04_02 Financialisation, regulation, and the local state https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gceg.org%2FSS04_02-Financialisation-regulation-and-the-local-state.php&data=04%7C01%7C%7C9523c5579feb4020101208d9d760b1c2%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637777632564615550%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=cO5DEw2AAF5gU7I7Ek2xKdguI%2FcDnmE3x4NyoaSBENM%3D&reserved=0 Session organisers: Frances Brill (University of Cambridge, UK) fn...@cam.ac.uk<mailto:fn...@cam.ac.uk> Laura Deruytter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) laura.deruyt...@vub.be<mailto:laura.deruyt...@vub.be> Andy Pike (Newcastle University, UK) andy.p...@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:andy.p...@ncl.ac.uk> Callum Ward (LSE, UK) c.wa...@lse.ac.uk<mailto:c.wa...@lse.ac.uk> Local government and the wider local state have experienced dramatic change in the last decade in the global North. A decade of turbulence has been marked by geographically uneven austerity and unprecedented expenditure reductions, rising demand for local services, regulatory change, and national government ambitions for local financial ‘self-sufficiency’ and reduced dependence upon central grants. Fiscal stress has intensified pressures on local government actors and those in the wider local state to close funding gaps by making savings and finding new sources of income, drawing them into new strategies, relationships, arrangements, and instruments. Worlds of municipal and public finance are intersecting with those of commercial and private finance. Local government faces an uncertain future amidst growing inequalities, climate change, demographic shifts, technological transitions, and post-pandemic recovery. This period of change and uncertainty raises fundamental questions about what local government and the local state is for and how it can be funded, financed, and governed. Potential topics: We welcome conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical contributions as well as international and/or comparative cases from the research community in relation to these and other relevant themes: · Conceptualising and theorising the local state in financialisation · Peopling the local state: administrators, politicians, regulators, and financialisers · ‘Debtscapes’ of the local state · Coping with austerity – making savings and generating new sources of income · Extending the local state and changing institutional forms · The new urban and regional ‘public wealth’ and asset management · Circulation, adoption, and adaptation of financial innovations · The political economy and politics of local state financialisation and regulation · Evolving policy experimentation in municipal socialism and local state entre(/intra)peneurialism · ‘Depoliticisation’, ‘post-democracy’ and the ‘post-political’ in local state transparency, scrutiny, and accountability · Local state financial and regulatory futures amidst growing inequalities, climate emergency, demographic shifts, and post-pandemic recovery We plan to include discussants for each paper and a closing panel made up of participants in the sessions. 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We look forward to seeing you in person in Dublin! 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