Nina Boy
Honorary Research Fellow
Nina.Boy@warwick.ac.uk
My research is based at the intersection of security studies and international political economy, focusing on conceptions of (in)security in global finance. This includes theories of money, debt, value and collateral, informed by a socio-political perspective grounded in the technicalities of modern finance.
I hold a PhD in Politics from Lancaster and have worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) for 8 years, leading a work package on Financial security in the EU FP7-funded Societal Security Network () and organising interdisciplinary PhD courses at the Research School on Peace and Conflict (eg ).
I was part of the Management Team of the COST Action System risk, financial crisis & credit from 2010-2014, leading a working group on Credit, and organised the Research Council of Norway-funded Workshop series Understanding 鈥榝inancial security鈥� in an age of uncertainty (2009-2011). For the Centre I ran the workshop in 2018.
I am co-editor of the post-disciplinary open-access journal .
Upcoming Event
PLEDGE - Interdisciplinary workshop on the history and politics of a persistent security device, Marburg 21-22 November 2019 (co-funded by Institute of Advanced Study and )
Research keywords
- Financial security
- Safe assets
- History and politics of the pledge
- Historical epistemology of finance and economics
- Political economy of money and finance
- Political theory
- Socio-political imaginaries
Current project
My WIRL-COFUND project examines how and with what consequences the value of safety is changing in post-crisis finance, looking at: 1) Historical and theoretical parameters of safe assets; 2) Systemic and systematic risk; 3) Safety in collateral-based finance and 4) Changing valuation frameworks of safety.
Publications
Boy, N. (under review) The financial value of safety: Exploring the material and immaterial yield of security
Boy, N. and D. Gabor (forthcoming 2019) Introduction to special section on Collateral, Economy & Society
Boy, N. and D. Gabor (2019) Collateral times, Economy & Society 48(3), pp. 295-314
Boy, N., Morris, J. Santos, M. (2017) Introduction: Taking stock of security and finance, Special Issue on Security and Finance, Finance & Society, 3(2), 102-105. Available .
Boy, N. (2017) Finance-Security: Where to go? Finance & Society, 3(2), 208-215. Available .
Boy, N. (2016) 鈥楩inancial security鈥� in J. Junk, C. Daase and G. Schlag (eds) Transformations of Security, PRIO/ Routledge New Security Studies Series, London: Routledge
Boy, N. (2015) Sovereign safety, Security Dialogue, 46(6), 530-547. Available .
Boy, N. (2014) 鈥楾he backstory of the risk-free asset: how government debt became 鈥渟afe鈥濃�� in C. Goodhart, D. Gabor and J. Vestergaard (eds) Central Banking at a Crossroads, London: Anthem Press. Available on request here.
Boy, N. (2014) 鈥樏杅fentlichkeit als public credit鈥� /鈥橳he 鈥減ublic鈥� of public credit鈥� in A. Langenohl and D. Wetzel (eds) Finanzmarktpublika/ Financial market publics, Wiesbaden: Springer VS
Boy, N., J.P. Burgess and A. Leander (2011) 鈥楾he global governance of security and finance: Introduction to the Special Issue鈥�. Security Dialogue, 42(2): 115-122