Mr Tim Heinemann
PhD student
School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
t.n.heinemann@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Economic Geography, Cultural Geographies of Capitalism, Emerging Financial Markets, Turkey
PhD Supervisors:
Adrian Smith
Roger Lee
PhD Research:
My PhD is contributing to very important, but nonetheless relatively under researched field, in economic geography: the social and material construction of financial markets and, in particular, of emerging markets (EMs).
My focus is on the social and economic relations involved in the production of Turkey as an emerging market; the Turkish state, Turkish business organisations, financial markets, global governmental institutions and the EU. This research attempts to answer three questions. First, what are EMs and how are they understood to be different from ‘developed markets’? The purpose of this question is to explore the diverse and broad understandings and imaginations of people engaged in the production of Emerging Markets. In relation to this question I am exploring critically the notion of emerging financial markets as nothing beyond or above the real economy. The second research question explores the work and relations of financial market actors - analysts, fund managers, rating agencies and traders. The focus is based on actors’ knowledge practices and how they assess and understand risk and reward in EMs. My third question examines how the development of Turkey as an emerging market can be explained through government practices. In so doing, I show the ways through which the government, business organisations, unions, private actors, global governmental institutions (IMF, IBRD and the OECD) and the EU relationally construct, modernise and de-orientalise the Turkish economy.
This research reflects my interests in economic geographies of knowledge production, geographies of finance, and cultural political economy.
This research is supported by:
£1340 – University of London Central Research Fund
Research Groups:
Member of Network Turkey (http://www.netzwerk-tuerkei.org/language/en/)
Other Activities:
Editorial Assistant Progress in Human Geography
Website Editor Urban Geography Research Group