In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper examines the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore through the entanglements of conventional ‘market-disciplinary rule regimes',...

While financialisation has been typically framed as a market imperative that permeates everyday life and transforms individuals and households into responsible self-governing subjects, we argue that the role of the state is vital in explaining the formation and impacts of specific forms of...

This chapter addresses the lacuna of research on the state within the financialization literature by focusing on state-firm relations to explain capitalist processes and formations. Set in the context of Singapore's banking restructuring in the late-1990s and early-2000s, we argue that what...

Using the case of the Lehman Minibonds crisis in Singapore, this paper aims to elucidate processes of financialisation and geographies of investor subjects by investigating the reshaping of retail banking consumers into investor subjects. Instead of painting all investor subjects with a broad...