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David Bassens

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ID986274
NOMBREDavid Bassens
NOMBRESDavid
APELLIDOBassens
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AFILIACIONESVrije Universiteit Brussel
ORCID0000-0002-5368-7884
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TOTAL DE OBRAS46
TOTAL DE CITAS397
TOTAL COMO AUTOR46
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H12
  • Closing the loop, opening up the labour market? Training, reskilling, and inclusion in Brussels circular construction sector

    Open Access•J Baumgartner, David Bassens•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2026

    The circular economy (CE) is hailed as a novel model for urban development that proposes to deliver a more regenerative society by integrating economic, ecological and social objectives. The social pillar, however, tends to fall short in research and policy that prioritise innovation-focused growth agendas. Witnessing leading policy narratives frame social objectives as a matter of anticipated employment generation for low-skilled or ‘inactive’ w…

  • The developing foundational movement

    Open Access•David Bassens, Julie Froud et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2026•Referencias: 4

    We respond to four critical engagements with our article ‘Geography, the foundational economy, and the fallen-below’. There we sought to differentiate the foundational economy (FE) focus on the socio-spatially uneven crisis of social reproduction from regional studies approaches centred on the uneven crisis of production in European states. The article installed a socio-spatial framework at the heart of foundational analysis. Commentators raised …

  • Decentering tech oligarchy

    Ulysses Pascal, Cheng Fang et al.•ARTICLE•Science as Culture•2026•Referencias: 14

    Tech oligarchy is an emerging tendency characterized by founders and CEOs of technology firms leveraging economic and infrastructural power to influence political institutions and shape policy outc...

  • Geography, the foundational economy, and the fallen-below

    Open Access•David Bassens, Julie Froud et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2025•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 25

    Amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis in Europe, this article calls for more academic engagement with the concept of foundational liveability. Current conceptualisations of left-behind places and regions focus on uneven development and the legacies of deindustrialisation. With a cost-of-living crisis, however, we need to understand differences between households and new patterns of foundational precarity and discomfort in leading and lagging reg…

  • Striving for sovereignty across the cloud finance stack

    Open Access•David Bassens, Cheng Fang et al.•ARTICLE•Finance and Society•2025•Referencias: 42

    Platform finance implies financial institutions’ growing dependence on the infrastructure and technologies of large tech firms. This reliance manifests itself most clearly in cloud services provision where American technological hegemony has triggered concerns about technological sovereignty in the European Union. In China, American Big Techs have not gained much of a foothold given the role of domestic Techfins in a wider attempt to install algo…

  • The layering of urban governance logics

    Laura Deruytter, David Bassens•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 47

  • Finding land for the circular economy

    Open Access•J Baumgartner, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Regions…•2024•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 10

    The emergence of European-wide circular city agendas calls attention to the integration of circular economy (CE) policies in urban development trajectories. In post-industrial contexts like the Brussels Capital Region (BE), land scarcity and industrial gentrification pose significant challenges for emerging circular activities that do not conform to traditional economic valuation criteria. This article highlights the significance of land as a cen…

  • Banking in the cloud

    David Bassens, Vladimír Pažitka et al.•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 9

    Witnessing the inroads of Big Tech into finance, this paper maps the growing dependence of incumbent banks on public cloud infrastructures.Although 'cloud interfacing' has become crucial amid platform finance, the intersections between what we conceptualize as Global Digital Technology Networks and Global Financial Networks have received little attention.We mobilize social network analysis to (i) map the geographically variegated patterns of publ…

  • World cities under conditions of digitization and platform capitalism

    Open Access•David Bassens, Reijer Hendrikse et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2024•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    This themed issue showcases contributions that study how processes of digitization and platformization are reshaping the intermediary role and operations of advanced producer services (APS). It places these alterations against the backdrop of earlier rounds of APS ‘shapeshifting’ amid globalization and financialization. This introduction to the themed issue outlines the main dimensions of these shifts affecting APS: geographical changes, sectoral…

  • Stuck in 2012

    Open Access•David Bassens, Duncan Lindo•ARTICLE•European Urban and Regional Studies•2023•Referencias: 19

    At the heart of the Eurozone crisis was a dramatic divergence in interest rates between member states and a reversal of previously booming cross-border credit expansion from ‘core’ to ‘periphery’ by European banks. The resulting crisis and retreat behind national borders across the Eurozone challenged European elites’ decade-long project of producing European scale as a space for financial accumulation. The Eurozone crisis has been well-described…

  • Rebooting Amsterdam for the age of Big Tech

    Open Access•Reijer Hendrikse, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 5

  • Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance

    Open Access•David Bassens, Reijer Hendrikse•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2022•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 28

  • De territoriale inbedding van circulaire economische praktijken in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest onder de loep

    Open Access•Deborah Lambert, Mariana Santos et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2021

    L’économie circulaire (EC) figure parmi les priorités de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (RBC), car elle permet de concilier durabilité et objectifs économiques, tels que la fixation des activités productives dans la région et la création d’emplois. Le présent document s’appuie sur six études de cas dans le secteur agroalimentaire pour examiner la manière dont l’EC s’imbrique dans les tissus sociospatial, économique, culturel, financier et instit…

  • Enquête sur l'encastrement territorial des pratiques de l’économie circulaire en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale

    Open Access•Deborah Lambert, Mariana Santos et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2021

    L’économie circulaire (EC) figure parmi les priorités de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (RBC), car elle permet de concilier durabilité et objectifs économiques, tels que la fixation des activités productives dans la région et la création d’emplois. Le présent document s’appuie sur six études de cas dans le secteur agroalimentaire pour examiner la manière dont l’EC s’imbrique dans les tissus sociospatial, économique, culturel, financier et instit…

  • Investigating the territorial embeddedness of circular economic practices in the Brussels-Capital Region

    Open Access•Deborah Lambert, Mariana Santos et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2021

    L’économie circulaire (EC) figure parmi les priorités de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (RBC), car elle permet de concilier durabilité et objectifs économiques, tels que la fixation des activités productives dans la région et la création d’emplois. Le présent document s’appuie sur six études de cas dans le secteur agroalimentaire pour examiner la manière dont l’EC s’imbrique dans les tissus sociospatial, économique, culturel, financier et instit…

  • Unpacking the advanced producer services complex in world cities

    Open Access•David Bassens, Laura Gutierrez et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 45

    Limited empirical evidence in support of world-city formation has been the ‘dirty little secret’ of the eponymous research area. Since the late 1990s, inspired by Sassen’s account of The Global City, the field focused on advanced producer services (APS) firms as primary actors in world-city formation. While generating robust insights into the shifting geographies of world cities, empirical attention has mostly focused on mapping inter-urban world…

  • Disclosing Elite Ecologies

    Bas Van Heur, David Bassens•BOOK•Disclosing Elite Ecologies•2021

  • The Extended Local State Under Financialized Capitalism

    Open Access•Laura Deruytter, David Bassens•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2021•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 35

    This article examines how a restructuring local state repurposes existing government vehicles to navigate financial stress. Witnessing the changing use of intermunicipal companies (IMCs) by municipalities in Flanders (Belgium), we put empirical flesh on the bones of what we conceptualize as the extended local state. Our argument is that, while IMCs were set up to organize energy and water systems, several rounds of state restructuring have repurp…

  • Services avancés

    Open Access•Gilles Van Hamme, Maëlys Waiengnier et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2020

    À partir d’une analyse des dynamiques des services avancés dans l’économie bruxelloise, comptant pour plus d’un tiers de la valeur ajoutée totale de la RBC, cet article s’interroge sur l’impératif d’attractivité internationale qui accompagne le développement de ces services. Trois réflexions sont développées dans ce cadre. D’abord, partant du constat du caractère très international de l’économie bruxelloise, on propose de s’interroger sur la néce…

  • Advanced services

    Open Access•Gilles Van Hamme, Maëlys Waiengnier et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2020

    Based on an analysis of the dynamics of advanced services in the Brussels economy, which account for more than a third of the total added value in BCR (Brussels-Capital Region), this article looks at the necessity for international attractiveness which accompanies the development of these services. Three reflections are developed in this framework. Firstly, given the international nature of the Brussels economy, the need as well as the possibilit…

  • Geavanceerde diensten

    Open Access•Gilles Van Hamme, Maëlys Waiengnier et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2020

    Op basis van een analyse van de dynamieken van de geavanceerde diensten in de Brusselse economie, goed voor meer dan een derde van de totale toegevoegde waarde van het Brussels Gewest, onderzoekt dit artikel de noodzaak van internationale aantrekkelijkheid die gepaard gaat met de ontwikkeling van deze diensten. In dat kader belichten de auteurs drie punten van overweging. Eerst en vooral staan ze, gezien het zeer internationale karakter van de Br…

  • Circular economy and the city

    Wojciech Kębłowski, Deborah Lambert et al.•ARTICLE•Culture and Organization•2020•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 25

    The circular economy (CE) has become a matter of urban development. A literature review shows that the CE debate is biased toward technology-driven industrial change, while bracketing broader socio-political interests. We address this gap by exploring the political economy of scale of the CE. Looking into the case of Brussels (Belgium), a city that has recently adopted the CE as part of its socio-economic strategy, we explore how the anticipated …

  • Placing cities in the circular economy

    David Bassens, Wojciech Kębłowski et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2020•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 3

    The last decade has seen the adoption of the imaginary of a circular economy (CE) by cities. To date, much of the debate has been technical in orientation, making that the implications of the CE for urban theory and praxis have hitherto not been explored in great depth. This Debates and Interventions contribution collects work from diverse disciplinary quarters and geographical contexts, documenting the CE as an emerging alternative space of urba…

  • Metropolitan Geographies of Advanced Producer Services

    Open Access•Maëlys Waiengnier, Gilles Van Hamme et al.•ARTICLE•Tijdschrift voor Economische en…•2020•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 38

    The literature on global and world cities points towards a growing concentration of advanced producer services (APS) firms in a restricted number of cities, who execute strategic command and control functions over globalised capitalism. However, relatively little attention has been paid to how APS are located within such cities. We argue that APS locations within cities are related to two partly independent processes: localisation economies and c…

  • Strategic coupling between finance, technology and the state

    Open Access•Reijer Hendrikse, Masja Van Meeteren et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2020•Citada por: 17•Referencias: 52

    The rise of Fintech challenges established financial centres and incumbent financial institutions to rethink their strategies to remain obligatory passage points in the age of digitizing finance. To appreciate these changes, it is important to maintain theoretical interchange between developments in financial geography and economic geography, its parent discipline. In this paper, we argue that the ways in which evolutionary economic geography imp…

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  • World cities under conditions of financialized globalization

    Open Access•David Bassens, Masja Van Meeteren•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2014•Citada por: 52•Referencias: 40

    This paper interrogates the enduring yet changing role of world cities as centers of capitalist ‘command and control’ amidst deepening uneven development. By incorporating financialization processes in Friedmann’s (1986) world city hypothesis, we hypothesize that the world city archipelago remains an obligatory passage point for the relatively assured realization of capital. The advanced producer services complex appropriates superprofits as prod…

  • Pathways of Change

    Open Access•Ben Derudder, Paul J Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2010•Citada por: 48•Referencias: 34

    This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets changes in intercity relations at the global scale in the period 2000—08. It draws on the network model devised by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research group to measure global connectivities for 132 cities across the world in 2000 and 2008. The measurements for both years are adjusted so that a coherent set of services/cities is used. A range of statistical techniques is used t…

  • All transport problems are essentially mathematical”

    Wojciech Kębłowski, David Bassens•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2017•Citada por: 38•Referencias: 20

    This paper presents an inquiry into the capacity of transport and mobility studies to critically engage with contemporary policies. Drawing on the conceptualization of circuits of knowledge, the paper scrutinizes the extent to which transport policy agendas are framed around various approaches within academia. An extensive literature review reveals that the academic field of transport and mobility is organized around a hegemonic core of “neoclass…

  • Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’

    Open Access•Masja Van Meeteren, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2016•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 70

    This paper engages with postcolonial critiques of global cities research (GCR). We argue that such criticisms tend to be hampered by their tendency to be polemical rather than engaging, as evidenced by both the quasi-systematic misrepresentation of the core objectives of GCR and the skating over of its internal diversity. We present a genealogy of postcolonial critiques starting from Robinson’s (2002) agenda-setting discussion of GCR, followed by…

  • Searching for the Mecca of finance

    Open Access•David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2010•Citada por: 22•Referencias: 32

    This paper presents an analysis of the geography of the booming ‘Islamic financial services’ (IFS) sector, which provides a host of financial services based on Islamic religious grounds. The relevance of such an analysis is discussed against the conceptual backdrop of the world city network literature. It is argued that a focus on the globalisation of the IFS sector may provide an alternative to hegemonic geographical imaginations of world city‐f…

  • Setting Shari’a standards

    Open Access•David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2010•Citada por: 18•Referencias: 17

  • The Way We Were

    Open Access•Paul J Taylor, Peter J Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2009•Citada por: 18•Referencias: 7

    This article was published in the journal, Environment and Planning A [© Pion]. [Taylor, P.J. ... et al, 2009]. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in [Environment and Planning A], 41 (1), pp. 7-12, 2009, [10.1068/a41318]

  • Strategic coupling between finance, technology and the state

    Open Access•Reijer Hendrikse, Masja Van Meeteren et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2020•Citada por: 17•Referencias: 52

    The rise of Fintech challenges established financial centres and incumbent financial institutions to rethink their strategies to remain obligatory passage points in the age of digitizing finance. To appreciate these changes, it is important to maintain theoretical interchange between developments in financial geography and economic geography, its parent discipline. In this paper, we argue that the ways in which evolutionary economic geography imp…

  • Securitization across borders

    David Bassens, Ewald Engelen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Economic Geography•2012•Citada por: 17•Referencias: 19

    This article discusses the case of securitization in Islamic finance to tease out what is universal and what is specific about this technique. To do this, the article frames the spatial dispersal of securitization as a form of 'organizational mimicry', which highlights that techniques always rely for their functioning on locally rooted 'cultures of practice', suggesting that successful transplantations require adaptation in both context and techn…

  • Circular economy and the city

    Wojciech Kębłowski, Deborah Lambert et al.•ARTICLE•Culture and Organization•2020•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 25

    The circular economy (CE) has become a matter of urban development. A literature review shows that the CE debate is biased toward technology-driven industrial change, while bracketing broader socio-political interests. We address this gap by exploring the political economy of scale of the CE. Looking into the case of Brussels (Belgium), a city that has recently adopted the CE as part of its socio-economic strategy, we explore how the anticipated …

  • Placing cities in the circular economy

    David Bassens, Wojciech Kębłowski et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2020•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 3

    The last decade has seen the adoption of the imaginary of a circular economy (CE) by cities. To date, much of the debate has been technical in orientation, making that the implications of the CE for urban theory and praxis have hitherto not been explored in great depth. This Debates and Interventions contribution collects work from diverse disciplinary quarters and geographical contexts, documenting the CE as an emerging alternative space of urba…

  • World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization

    Open Access•Masja Van Meeteren, Michiel Van Meeteren et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2016•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 99

    This article critically evaluates the network-centrism of much of contemporary world cities research and queries its capacity to unveil key accumulation processes under financialized globalization. Our object of inquiry is the world city archipelago (WCA), a material yet non-contiguous space of world city 'islands', which is (re)produced through the socio-spatial practices of advanced producer services (APS) firms as they assist in constructing (…

  • Making space for a more foundational economy

    Open Access•Sarah De Boeck, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 5

  • An urban studies approach to elites

    Bas Van Heur, David Bassens•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2019•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 12

    This special issue offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites. Whereas most research has focused on the global super-rich, the authors in this special issue pay specific attention to the multidimensional urban geographies of elite reproduction and transformation, as elites depend on urban contexts for capital accumulation, consumption and leisure, and housing. In this article, we discuss theoretical and methodological antecedents in urba…

  • Doing global urban studies

    Open Access•Masja Van Meeteren, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2016•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 21

    By way of rejoinder to commentaries by members of the invisible college of postcolonial urbanism, we further develop issues of praxis regarding engaged pluralism and plead for its usefulness. Engaged pluralism when doing global urban studies depends on a research culture where both deconstructive and reconstructive moments are encouraged. Deconstruction benefits from the provincialization of all knowledge. Reconstruction can occur when we bracket…

  • Manning circuits of value

    Open Access•Marieke Krijnen, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2017•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 98

    Advanced producer services firms and the highly skilled labour they employ are important indicators for world-city formation, as their activities allegedly grant cities the capabilities to exert command and control over global accumulation processes. To 'stress test' this central assumption of global city theory, we apply Burawoy's extended case method to probe world-city formation in Beirut, Lebanon. Observing a tendency in the literature to sup…

  • Follow the money

    David Bassens, Bas Van Heur et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2018•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 14

    Cultural patronage has since long been a domain where urban elites can showcase a sense of philanthropy. The paper develops a heuristic that starts from cultural patronage activities in order to trace urban elite households and their professional and residential characteristics. The heuristic is deployed in Brussels, Belgium, where we use cultural patronage listings from five key high-culture institutions as an empirical entry-point into urban el…

  • No More Credit to Europe? Cross-Border Bank Lending, Financial Integration, and the Rebirth of the National Scale as a Credit Scorecard

    Open Access•David Bassens, Masja Van Meeteren et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2013•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 44

    The Eurozone crisis that erupted in 2008 has raised sincere doubts about the durability of political and financial linkages among its member states. This paper associates the resulting political–economic stasis of the Eurozone with the coevolution of the financial and monetary system at the European scale. The argument builds on insights from financial geography, cultural political economy, and sociology of finance. It focuses on the idea that fi…

  • Unpacking the advanced producer services complex in world cities

    Open Access•David Bassens, Laura Gutierrez et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 45

    Limited empirical evidence in support of world-city formation has been the ‘dirty little secret’ of the eponymous research area. Since the late 1990s, inspired by Sassen’s account of The Global City, the field focused on advanced producer services (APS) firms as primary actors in world-city formation. While generating robust insights into the shifting geographies of world cities, empirical attention has mostly focused on mapping inter-urban world…

  • Geography, the foundational economy, and the fallen-below

    Open Access•David Bassens, Julie Froud et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2025•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 25

    Amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis in Europe, this article calls for more academic engagement with the concept of foundational liveability. Current conceptualisations of left-behind places and regions focus on uneven development and the legacies of deindustrialisation. With a cost-of-living crisis, however, we need to understand differences between households and new patterns of foundational precarity and discomfort in leading and lagging reg…

  • World cities under conditions of digitization and platform capitalism

    Open Access•David Bassens, Reijer Hendrikse et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2024•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    This themed issue showcases contributions that study how processes of digitization and platformization are reshaping the intermediary role and operations of advanced producer services (APS). It places these alterations against the backdrop of earlier rounds of APS ‘shapeshifting’ amid globalization and financialization. This introduction to the themed issue outlines the main dimensions of these shifts affecting APS: geographical changes, sectoral…

  • Rebooting Amsterdam for the age of Big Tech

    Open Access•Reijer Hendrikse, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 5

  • Metropolitan Geographies of Advanced Producer Services

    Open Access•Maëlys Waiengnier, Gilles Van Hamme et al.•ARTICLE•Tijdschrift voor Economische en…•2020•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 38

    The literature on global and world cities points towards a growing concentration of advanced producer services (APS) firms in a restricted number of cities, who execute strategic command and control functions over globalised capitalism. However, relatively little attention has been paid to how APS are located within such cities. We argue that APS locations within cities are related to two partly independent processes: localisation economies and c…

  • Emerging Markets in a Shifting Global Financial Architecture

    Open Access•David Bassens•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2012•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 35

    Given major geo-economic shifts in the wake of the global financial crisis, this paper sets out to review major debates in the field of geographies of emerging markets (EM). Observing lingering implicit assumptions about the undirectionality behind the emergence of EM discourses and practices, the paper argues that contemporary processes of South-South and South-North investment call for a 'decentred' view on EM integration. Such a decentred fram…

  • World City Network Integration in the Eurasian Realm

    David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Eurasian Geography and Economics•2010•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    A team of authors from the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network explores the main empirical features of the global economic integration of Eurasia through an analysis of the (shifting) position of that macroregion's key cities. More specifically, they examine the gateway roles played by key cities in four major subregions—China, the former Eastern Bloc (FEB, i.e., Central and Eastern Europe), former Soviet Union (FSU), and India…

  • The Way We Were

    Open Access•Paul J Taylor, Peter J Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2009•Citada por: 18•Referencias: 7

    This article was published in the journal, Environment and Planning A [© Pion]. [Taylor, P.J. ... et al, 2009]. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in [Environment and Planning A], 41 (1), pp. 7-12, 2009, [10.1068/a41318]

  • World City Network Integration in the Eurasian Realm

    David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Eurasian Geography and Economics•2010•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

    A team of authors from the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network explores the main empirical features of the global economic integration of Eurasia through an analysis of the (shifting) position of that macroregion's key cities. More specifically, they examine the gateway roles played by key cities in four major subregions—China, the former Eastern Bloc (FEB, i.e., Central and Eastern Europe), former Soviet Union (FSU), and India…

  • Pathways of Change

    Open Access•Ben Derudder, Paul J Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2010•Citada por: 48•Referencias: 34

    This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets changes in intercity relations at the global scale in the period 2000—08. It draws on the network model devised by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research group to measure global connectivities for 132 cities across the world in 2000 and 2008. The measurements for both years are adjusted so that a coherent set of services/cities is used. A range of statistical techniques is used t…

  • Setting Shari’a standards

    Open Access•David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2010•Citada por: 18•Referencias: 17

  • Searching for the Mecca of finance

    Open Access•David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2010•Citada por: 22•Referencias: 32

    This paper presents an analysis of the geography of the booming ‘Islamic financial services’ (IFS) sector, which provides a host of financial services based on Islamic religious grounds. The relevance of such an analysis is discussed against the conceptual backdrop of the world city network literature. It is argued that a focus on the globalisation of the IFS sector may provide an alternative to hegemonic geographical imaginations of world city‐f…

  • The making and breaking of Dubai

    Open Access•David Bassens, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2010•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 8

  • Securitization across borders

    David Bassens, Ewald Engelen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Economic Geography•2012•Citada por: 17•Referencias: 19

    This article discusses the case of securitization in Islamic finance to tease out what is universal and what is specific about this technique. To do this, the article frames the spatial dispersal of securitization as a form of 'organizational mimicry', which highlights that techniques always rely for their functioning on locally rooted 'cultures of practice', suggesting that successful transplantations require adaptation in both context and techn…

  • Emerging Markets in a Shifting Global Financial Architecture

    Open Access•David Bassens•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2012•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 35

    Given major geo-economic shifts in the wake of the global financial crisis, this paper sets out to review major debates in the field of geographies of emerging markets (EM). Observing lingering implicit assumptions about the undirectionality behind the emergence of EM discourses and practices, the paper argues that contemporary processes of South-South and South-North investment call for a 'decentred' view on EM integration. Such a decentred fram…

  • No More Credit to Europe? Cross-Border Bank Lending, Financial Integration, and the Rebirth of the National Scale as a Credit Scorecard

    Open Access•David Bassens, Masja Van Meeteren et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2013•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 44

    The Eurozone crisis that erupted in 2008 has raised sincere doubts about the durability of political and financial linkages among its member states. This paper associates the resulting political–economic stasis of the Eurozone with the coevolution of the financial and monetary system at the European scale. The argument builds on insights from financial geography, cultural political economy, and sociology of finance. It focuses on the idea that fi…

  • Political-geographic interpretations of massive air transport developments in Gulf cities

    Open Access•Ben Derudder, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2013•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 9

  • World cities under conditions of financialized globalization

    Open Access•David Bassens, Masja Van Meeteren•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2014•Citada por: 52•Referencias: 40

    This paper interrogates the enduring yet changing role of world cities as centers of capitalist ‘command and control’ amidst deepening uneven development. By incorporating financialization processes in Friedmann’s (1986) world city hypothesis, we hypothesize that the world city archipelago remains an obligatory passage point for the relatively assured realization of capital. The advanced producer services complex appropriates superprofits as prod…

  • Doing global urban studies

    Open Access•Masja Van Meeteren, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2016•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 21

    By way of rejoinder to commentaries by members of the invisible college of postcolonial urbanism, we further develop issues of praxis regarding engaged pluralism and plead for its usefulness. Engaged pluralism when doing global urban studies depends on a research culture where both deconstructive and reconstructive moments are encouraged. Deconstruction benefits from the provincialization of all knowledge. Reconstruction can occur when we bracket…

  • Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’

    Open Access•Masja Van Meeteren, Ben Derudder et al.•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2016•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 70

    This paper engages with postcolonial critiques of global cities research (GCR). We argue that such criticisms tend to be hampered by their tendency to be polemical rather than engaging, as evidenced by both the quasi-systematic misrepresentation of the core objectives of GCR and the skating over of its internal diversity. We present a genealogy of postcolonial critiques starting from Robinson’s (2002) agenda-setting discussion of GCR, followed by…

  • World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization

    Open Access•Masja Van Meeteren, Michiel Van Meeteren et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2016•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 99

    This article critically evaluates the network-centrism of much of contemporary world cities research and queries its capacity to unveil key accumulation processes under financialized globalization. Our object of inquiry is the world city archipelago (WCA), a material yet non-contiguous space of world city 'islands', which is (re)produced through the socio-spatial practices of advanced producer services (APS) firms as they assist in constructing (…

  • Easing spatial inequalities? An analysis of the anticipated effects of Urban Enterprise Zones in Brussels

    Sarah De Boeck, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•European Planning Studies•2017

    This paper offers an ex-ante policy analysis of the Zone of Economic Expansion (ZEE) in inner-city neighbourhoods of the Brussels Canal Area. It identifies the anticipated effects by scrutinizing the impact of a similar and already implemented Urban Enterprise Zone – the Zone Franche Urbaine – in the city centre Roubaix (Lille). The key question is whether the ZEE can be interpreted as a policy measure to effectively reduce spatial inequalities, …

  • All transport problems are essentially mathematical”

    Wojciech Kębłowski, David Bassens•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2017•Citada por: 38•Referencias: 20

    This paper presents an inquiry into the capacity of transport and mobility studies to critically engage with contemporary policies. Drawing on the conceptualization of circuits of knowledge, the paper scrutinizes the extent to which transport policy agendas are framed around various approaches within academia. An extensive literature review reveals that the academic field of transport and mobility is organized around a hegemonic core of “neoclass…

  • Manning circuits of value

    Open Access•Marieke Krijnen, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2017•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 98

    Advanced producer services firms and the highly skilled labour they employ are important indicators for world-city formation, as their activities allegedly grant cities the capabilities to exert command and control over global accumulation processes. To 'stress test' this central assumption of global city theory, we apply Burawoy's extended case method to probe world-city formation in Beirut, Lebanon. Observing a tendency in the literature to sup…

  • Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization

    David Bassens, Masja Van Meeteren et al.•BOOK•Handbook on the Geographies of…•2018

    This chapter provides an overview of the main drivers of financial globalization, a process characterized by the growing range and depth of financial relations enshrined in a global financial system that supersedes the international state system. What it is about finance that allows its globalization to take place so rapidly and so deeply? We argue that a main answer lies in the inherent capacity of finance to overcome space and time constraints.…

  • Follow the money

    David Bassens, Bas Van Heur et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2018•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 14

    Cultural patronage has since long been a domain where urban elites can showcase a sense of philanthropy. The paper develops a heuristic that starts from cultural patronage activities in order to trace urban elite households and their professional and residential characteristics. The heuristic is deployed in Brussels, Belgium, where we use cultural patronage listings from five key high-culture institutions as an empirical entry-point into urban el…

  • An urban studies approach to elites

    Bas Van Heur, David Bassens•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2019•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 12

    This special issue offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites. Whereas most research has focused on the global super-rich, the authors in this special issue pay specific attention to the multidimensional urban geographies of elite reproduction and transformation, as elites depend on urban contexts for capital accumulation, consumption and leisure, and housing. In this article, we discuss theoretical and methodological antecedents in urba…

  • Making space for a more foundational economy

    Open Access•Sarah De Boeck, David Bassens et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 5

  • Services avancés

    Open Access•Gilles Van Hamme, Maëlys Waiengnier et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2020

    À partir d’une analyse des dynamiques des services avancés dans l’économie bruxelloise, comptant pour plus d’un tiers de la valeur ajoutée totale de la RBC, cet article s’interroge sur l’impératif d’attractivité internationale qui accompagne le développement de ces services. Trois réflexions sont développées dans ce cadre. D’abord, partant du constat du caractère très international de l’économie bruxelloise, on propose de s’interroger sur la néce…

  • Advanced services

    Open Access•Gilles Van Hamme, Maëlys Waiengnier et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2020

    Based on an analysis of the dynamics of advanced services in the Brussels economy, which account for more than a third of the total added value in BCR (Brussels-Capital Region), this article looks at the necessity for international attractiveness which accompanies the development of these services. Three reflections are developed in this framework. Firstly, given the international nature of the Brussels economy, the need as well as the possibilit…

  • Geavanceerde diensten

    Open Access•Gilles Van Hamme, Maëlys Waiengnier et al.•ARTICLE•Brussels Studies•2020

    Op basis van een analyse van de dynamieken van de geavanceerde diensten in de Brusselse economie, goed voor meer dan een derde van de totale toegevoegde waarde van het Brussels Gewest, onderzoekt dit artikel de noodzaak van internationale aantrekkelijkheid die gepaard gaat met de ontwikkeling van deze diensten. In dat kader belichten de auteurs drie punten van overweging. Eerst en vooral staan ze, gezien het zeer internationale karakter van de Br…

  • Circular economy and the city

    Wojciech Kębłowski, Deborah Lambert et al.•ARTICLE•Culture and Organization•2020•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 25

    The circular economy (CE) has become a matter of urban development. A literature review shows that the CE debate is biased toward technology-driven industrial change, while bracketing broader socio-political interests. We address this gap by exploring the political economy of scale of the CE. Looking into the case of Brussels (Belgium), a city that has recently adopted the CE as part of its socio-economic strategy, we explore how the anticipated …

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