De aardrijkskunde van het geld

by Ewald Engelen

De financiële geografie is in vijftien jaar tijd uitgegroeid van een academische niche tot een volwaardige discipline, compleet met eigen netwerken, conferenties en nu zelfs een atlas. In zijn bespreking van de Atlas van de financiële wereld vraagt Ewald Engelen zich af hoe de kaarten van zijn vriend en collega Dariusz Wójcik niet alleen de geografie van het geld tonen, maar ook de morele spanning tussen fascinatie en kritiek binnen het vakgebied zelf.

– The Dutch Review of Books

L’Atlas de la finance
La naissance
d’une science

by Epsiloon

Sequere pecuniam -suivez !’argent-, dit l’adage remain. Cet atlas releve le defi avec 80 infographies qui devoilent les rouages de la finance. L’acte de naissance de la geographie financiere.

« Nous definissons la fi­nance comme un systeme de relations entre Jes hu­mains et Jeur environne­ment au sein duque/ /es per­ceptions et Jes interactions sont mediatisees par
/’argent. Et la geographie financiere consiste a a/fer au fond de ces questions au creur des terres, des paysages, des vii/es, des regions du monde, a travers ce prisme financier», pose Dariusz Wojcik.

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October 2025

Atlas of Finance: Mapping the global story of money in which people and the environment matter

by Dariusz Wójcik

In this article, based on my Annual Geoforum Lecture 2024, I elaborate the new definition of finance as a system of human-environment relationships, in which people interact with and experience each other and their environment and create systems of value through the medium of money. This is a pioneering definition, since the notion of finance has paradoxically been the neglected child of financial research. This definition of finance puts people and the environment front and centre of finance, and so does the Atlas of Finance. I illustrate this focus with maps and visuals from the atlas, sharing the intellectual journey of my co-authors and myself and examples of challenges we have encountered. I argue that the road to reharness the power of finance for the benefit of humanity and human-environment relationships leads through financial geography, mapping and visualisation, which can all enhance and broaden our understanding of finance, and our visions for a better future.

– Geoforum Annual Lecture 2024

14 August 2025

Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money

by Dariusz Wójcik, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Stefanos Ioannou, Liam Keenan, Julien Migozzi, Timothy Monteath, Vladimir Pazitka, Morag Torrance, and Michael Urban

Atlas of Finance is a stunningly designed and illustrated collection of maps and visuals that covers a huge range of financial topics from all over the world and from ancient times to today, showcasing the significance of geography in each. Produced by lead author Dariusz Wójcik, cartographer James Cheshire, designer Oliver Uberti, and eight further co-authors, the Atlas has already won multiple awards and been translated into three languages with more on the way. This book review forum emerges from an unusually fun Author Meets Critics session at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Detroit, during which a copy of the Atlas was passed around and many individual pages were projected onto a large screen. Although the book has been widely reviewed in academic and popular publications, this forum is unique in bringing together contributors with specializations in cartography, data science and visualization, and economic and financial geography, and in providing the authors a space in which to reflect on and respond to their comments.

– Book Review Fora