Liam Keenan

Contact

• workRoom C17 Sir Clive Granger Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 14381
• Liam.Keenan1@nottingham.ac.uk

Teaching Summary

I contribute to the following modules in the school:

GEOG1018: Globalisation: Economy, Space and Power

GEOG2016: Economic Geography

GEOG2034: Urban Geography

GEOG2030: Research Tutorial

GEOG2004/2012: Techniques in Human Geography

GEOG2031: Dissertation Preparation

GEOG3004: Dissertation

GEOG3012: Geographies of Money and Finance

PhD Students

James Beardsmore

Yuning Fang

Research Summary

I situate myself as an economic geographer with interests in financialization, financial centres and sustainability. For financialization, I am interested in the causal and constitutive role of… read more

Recent Publications

• CLARE, N & KEENAN, L, 2024. Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
• IOANNOU, S, KEENAN, L and WÓJCIK, D, 2024. Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Eurasian Geography and Economics.
• WÓJCIK, D, ILIOPOLOUS, P, IOANNOU, S, KEENAN, L, MIGOZZI, J, MONTEATH, T, PAŽITKA, V, TORRANCE, M, URBAN, M, CHESHIRE, J and UBERTI, O, 2024. Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money Yale University Press.
• WÓJCIK, D., KEENAN, L., PAŽITKA,V., URBAN, M AND WEI, W,, 2023. Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data Journal of Economic Geography.

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Current Research

I situate myself as an economic geographer with interests in financialization, financial centres and sustainability. For financialization, I am interested in the causal and constitutive role of geography in its uneven expressions at firm-level. For financial centres, I am interested in advancing greater relational understandings of how different centres interact, intersect and evolve as part of complex financial networks. For sustainability, I am interested in the uneven role of finance in supporting and inhibiting sustainable transitions. Central to all of these interests is framing them within the latest theoretical debates in economic geography, financial geography and urban studies. This is reflected through my contributions towards innovating theoretical frameworks - including Geographical Political Economy, Cultural Political Economy, Global Financial Networks (GFN) and Global Production Networks (GPN) - as part of my research.

• CLARE, N & KEENAN, L, 2024. Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
• IOANNOU, S, KEENAN, L and WÓJCIK, D, 2024. Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Eurasian Geography and Economics.
• WÓJCIK, D, ILIOPOLOUS, P, IOANNOU, S, KEENAN, L, MIGOZZI, J, MONTEATH, T, PAŽITKA, V, TORRANCE, M, URBAN, M, CHESHIRE, J and UBERTI, O, 2024. Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money Yale University Press.
• WÓJCIK, D., KEENAN, L., PAŽITKA,V., URBAN, M AND WEI, W,, 2023. Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data Journal of Economic Geography.
• KEENAN, L AND WÓJCIK, D, 2023. The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
• KEENAN, L., MONTEATH, T AND WÓJCIK, D, 2023. Hungry for power: financialization and the concentration of corporate control in the global food system Geoforum.
• WÓJCIK, D., KEENAN, L., PAŽITKA,V., URBAN, M AND WEI, W, 2022. The Changing Landscape of International Financial Centers in the Twenty-First Century: Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Financial Network Economic Geography. 98(2), 97-118
• KEENAN, L., MONTEATH, T AND WÓJCIK, D, 2022. Patents over patients? Exploring the variegated financialization of the pharmaceuticals industry through mergers and acquisitions Competition & Change. 1-23
• KEENAN, L., MONTEATH, T AND WÓJCIK, D, 2022. Financial discipline through inter-sectoral mergers and acquisitions: Exploring the convergence of Global Production Networks and the Global Financial Network Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 1-19
• KEENAN, L AND WÓJCIK, D, 2022. Tokyo's booms and busts: Placing Japan in the global financial network Finance and Society.
• KEENAN, L, 2020. The geographies of the institutional and industrial constraints on the financialization of German brewing Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 52(8), 1662-1680
• KEENAN, L, 2020. Financialization, securitization and the decline of pubs in Britain Journal of Economic Geography. 20(6), 1293-1311