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Interrogating the assumption that we live in a time ‘after’ crisis, this article explores financial crisis, recovery and ongoing questions of governance and intervention through a gender ‘lens’. It locates the ‘afterwards’ of the global financial crisis as central to understanding how particular relations of gendered power have been able to prevail in producing a world of governance post ‘post-crisis’. Asking what the limits, and liminality, of global financial governance are ‘after’ crisis, the article argues that governance responses to the crisis can be understood in gendered terms: in their efforts to stave off the potential instability of an undecided, ambiguous and potentially unpredictable economic space, and as concentrating power in the hands of financial elites, particularly, elite groups of white men.

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Financial governance ‘after’ crisis: On the liminality of the global financial crisis and its ‘afterwards’,through a gender lens

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