D Fields
Biographic Data
| ID | 17451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Fields |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fields |
| SIGNATURE | FIELDS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6959-8803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Scams all the way up: The scam as vernacular analytic of digital capitalism
Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we ar…
Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media
Platforms enabling individuals to invest in stocks, cryptocurrency, real estate, and other assets have proliferated globally. Meanwhile, narratives of financial freedom and investment content spread rapidly on social media platforms. As platform infrastructures play an increasingly significant role in changing financial markets and mediating individual behaviors and aspirations, we suspect they are also shaping the financial subjectivity of retai…
Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing
Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the S…
Speculative Urban Worldmaking: Meeting Financial Violence with a Politics of Collective Care
This article brings Black feminist thought to bear on the urban geography of racialised financial violence. Our analysis focuses on the Moms 4 Housing movement, which began when five Black mothers occupied a vacant, corporate investor‐owned house in West Oakland to protest how real estate speculation is fuelling displacement and homelessness for Black Oakland residents, disrupting care at the scale of the home and community. In taking space throu…
Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of rental properties and platform rentierisation
Private renting increasingly comprises a complex ecosystem of actors who assemble housing within the market, and collect rental income and data from tenants, and data on the material assets themselves. Our analysis – at the intersection of rentier and platform capitalism – focuses on landed (material real estate) and technological (digital infrastructure and data) property in Australia’s private rental system. Drawing out relationships between th…
Digital Experiments with Landed Property: Robots, Race, and Rent
A wide range of digital innovations has changed property relations globally over the past fifteen years. What are we to make of these digital experiments with landed property? I argue we should not mistake their technological novelty for a break with the geographic and historical specificities of property relations. The yoking of property to modernity and civilization makes technological progress a fundamental part of how relationships to land ar…
From Experimenting with Property to Experimenting on Place: A Rejoinder to Migozzi and Safransky
This rejoinder engages with the commentaries on my article on ‘Digital experiments with landed property’ from Julien Migozzi and Sara Safransky. In my response, I share my reflections on the valuable provocations and interrelated themes offered in these generous commentaries. First, I argue that an especially distinctive aspect of digital experiments with landed property is the volumetric property relations they are generating. Second, I attend t…
Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco's Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008-2020
Between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. technology industry increasingly shifted toward cities. Local governments pursuing innovation-led growth encouraged this shift, as exemplified by San Francisco, the spatial and symbolic urban home of the global technology industry. The commercial real estate market is central to understanding the city’s growth as a tech cluster between 2008 and 2020. Platform technology firms substan…
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property
This theme issue investigates how 21st-century digital innovations are changing the nature and value of land, housing, and property. Contributors bring together an array of cases to understand how digitization is remaking land and housing on a global scale and, in turn, how existing property relations structure digital transformations in particular geographies. In this introduction to the theme issue, we outline how hype can be used as an analyti…
Constructing explanations in economic geography: An invitation
This editorial introduction launches an ongoing section in the journal's Exchanges section, concerned with methods, methodology and the construction of explanations in economic geography, broadly defined
Speculative urbanism
Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation
This article centers the role of digital technologies in extending financial accumulation into new sectors of the US housing market in the wake of the global financial crisis. I argue that while post-crisis market conditions provided an opportunity for large investors to acquire foreclosed single-family homes, convert them to rental housing, and roll out an new asset class based on bundled rent checks, these conditions were insufficient on their …
Racialized geographies of housing financialization
Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing financialization rarely addresses the inextricable relationship between racism and capitalism. Racial division and subordination have always been necessary to producing value in real estate; financialization materially reproduces racial capitalism by reconfiguring the de…
RaquelRolnik2019: Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance. London: Verso Books
Platform methods: Studying platform urbanism outside the black box
This intervention reflects on critical perspectives on algorithms and geographical work on the urban-digital interface to highlight a set of approaches for studying the politics of platform urbanism. In several ways, platforms may be understood as black boxes due to the proprietary nature of algorithms, the secrecy of corporate ownership structures, and the emphasis on confidentiality and privacy in the venture capital industry. While thus raisin…
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
From Oakland to Barcelona to Berlin, housing activists are demanding the resocialization of housing and engaging in insurgent practices of reclaiming housing from corporate landlords. In contesting
Towards a Critical Housing Studies Research Agenda on Platform Real Estate
The pace and scope of digital innovation targeting the real estate industry has intensified over the past decade. This article is therefore concerned with the digitization of the residential real estate industry, and how critical housing scholars might shape a research agenda on this transformation. We set out platform logic, digital labor, and financialization as a conceptual vocabulary for studying new digital modalities of real estate practice…
Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis
This article is concerned with new modes of property-led financial accumulation emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Focusing on the United States, the article traces the creation of an asset class derived from securitizing the rental income of foreclosed homes turned rental properties. The study strategically combines conceptual agendas often pursued separately. Theories of market formation rooted in science and technology studies …
The geopolitics of real estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights
The foundational assertion of Dallas Rogers's The Geopolitics of Real Estate is that understanding contemporary crises in land and real estate requires an extended timeline that gets at the 'deeper
Urban struggles with financialization
The 2008 financial crisis and its impacts on the urban landscape contributed to a proliferation of research on the financialization of urban space, particularly of housing. Today, financialization is a mainstream focus of study within geography. But while scholars have responded to earlier calls to center space and place in their research, it has only been quite recently that geographers have taken up efforts to politicize and contest the financi…
Unwilling Subjects of Financialization
This article seeks to advance debates about the financialization of housing by focusing on the emergence of rental housing as a frontier for financialization, a dynamic that is increasingly relevant since the global financial crisis. Situated in New York City, the research focuses on an aggressive wave of investment in affordable rent-stabilized properties by private equity firms, their efforts to release value from these properties, and the impl…
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
The financialisation of rental housing: A comparative analysis of New York City and Berlin
This paper compares how recent waves of private equity real estate investment have reshaped the rental housing markets in New York and Berlin. Through secondary analysis of separate primary research projects, we explore financialisation’s impact on tenants, neighbourhoods, and urban space. Despite their contrasting market contexts and investor strategies, financialisation heightened existing inequalities in housing affordability and stability, an…
Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space: Community Organizations and the Struggle to Preserve Affordable Rental Housing in New York City
As cities have become both site and object of capital accumulation in a neoliberal political economy, the challenges to community practice aimed at creating, preserving, and improving affordable housing and neighborhoods have grown. Financial markets and actors are increasingly central to the workings of capitalism, transforming the meaning and significance of mortgage capital in local communities and redrawing the relationship between housing an…
Rethinking Real Estate Finance in the Wake of a Boom: A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Double Issue on Property and Finance in Environment and Planning A
Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis
This article is concerned with new modes of property-led financial accumulation emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Focusing on the United States, the article traces the creation of an asset class derived from securitizing the rental income of foreclosed homes turned rental properties. The study strategically combines conceptual agendas often pursued separately. Theories of market formation rooted in science and technology studies …
Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation
This article centers the role of digital technologies in extending financial accumulation into new sectors of the US housing market in the wake of the global financial crisis. I argue that while post-crisis market conditions provided an opportunity for large investors to acquire foreclosed single-family homes, convert them to rental housing, and roll out an new asset class based on bundled rent checks, these conditions were insufficient on their …
The financialisation of rental housing: A comparative analysis of New York City and Berlin
This paper compares how recent waves of private equity real estate investment have reshaped the rental housing markets in New York and Berlin. Through secondary analysis of separate primary research projects, we explore financialisation’s impact on tenants, neighbourhoods, and urban space. Despite their contrasting market contexts and investor strategies, financialisation heightened existing inequalities in housing affordability and stability, an…
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space: Community Organizations and the Struggle to Preserve Affordable Rental Housing in New York City
As cities have become both site and object of capital accumulation in a neoliberal political economy, the challenges to community practice aimed at creating, preserving, and improving affordable housing and neighborhoods have grown. Financial markets and actors are increasingly central to the workings of capitalism, transforming the meaning and significance of mortgage capital in local communities and redrawing the relationship between housing an…
Unwilling Subjects of Financialization
This article seeks to advance debates about the financialization of housing by focusing on the emergence of rental housing as a frontier for financialization, a dynamic that is increasingly relevant since the global financial crisis. Situated in New York City, the research focuses on an aggressive wave of investment in affordable rent-stabilized properties by private equity firms, their efforts to release value from these properties, and the impl…
Racialized geographies of housing financialization
Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing financialization rarely addresses the inextricable relationship between racism and capitalism. Racial division and subordination have always been necessary to producing value in real estate; financialization materially reproduces racial capitalism by reconfiguring the de…
Towards a Critical Housing Studies Research Agenda on Platform Real Estate
The pace and scope of digital innovation targeting the real estate industry has intensified over the past decade. This article is therefore concerned with the digitization of the residential real estate industry, and how critical housing scholars might shape a research agenda on this transformation. We set out platform logic, digital labor, and financialization as a conceptual vocabulary for studying new digital modalities of real estate practice…
Platform methods: Studying platform urbanism outside the black box
This intervention reflects on critical perspectives on algorithms and geographical work on the urban-digital interface to highlight a set of approaches for studying the politics of platform urbanism. In several ways, platforms may be understood as black boxes due to the proprietary nature of algorithms, the secrecy of corporate ownership structures, and the emphasis on confidentiality and privacy in the venture capital industry. While thus raisin…
Deflating the Dream: Radical Risk and the Neoliberalization of Homeownership
This article explores the contributions of neoliberal practice to the expansion of homeownership and the foreclosure crisis to illuminate the contradictions between the rhetorical goals of homeownership and the actual experiences of new homeowners. In doing so we explore the theories and practices that homeowners deploy to try to survive and keep their lives together. First, we review the aspects of housing policy in neoliberal regimes that led m…
Housing and Health: A Social Ecological Perspective on the US Foreclosure Crisis
This study adds to the literature linking housing and health by illustrating how poor health can increase the risk of foreclosure, and how the threat of foreclosure can negatively affect mental health. Our findings support the social ecological model of health and housing disparities and point to health care, employment, and social welfare policies as fundamental social causes that place populations at risk for foreclosure and illness. Medical de…
Mortgage Foreclosure and Health Disparities: Serial Displacement as Asset Extraction in African American Populations
Urban struggles with financialization
The 2008 financial crisis and its impacts on the urban landscape contributed to a proliferation of research on the financialization of urban space, particularly of housing. Today, financialization is a mainstream focus of study within geography. But while scholars have responded to earlier calls to center space and place in their research, it has only been quite recently that geographers have taken up efforts to politicize and contest the financi…
Speculative Urban Worldmaking: Meeting Financial Violence with a Politics of Collective Care
This article brings Black feminist thought to bear on the urban geography of racialised financial violence. Our analysis focuses on the Moms 4 Housing movement, which began when five Black mothers occupied a vacant, corporate investor‐owned house in West Oakland to protest how real estate speculation is fuelling displacement and homelessness for Black Oakland residents, disrupting care at the scale of the home and community. In taking space throu…
The geopolitics of real estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights
The foundational assertion of Dallas Rogers's The Geopolitics of Real Estate is that understanding contemporary crises in land and real estate requires an extended timeline that gets at the 'deeper
Speculative urbanism
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property
This theme issue investigates how 21st-century digital innovations are changing the nature and value of land, housing, and property. Contributors bring together an array of cases to understand how digitization is remaking land and housing on a global scale and, in turn, how existing property relations structure digital transformations in particular geographies. In this introduction to the theme issue, we outline how hype can be used as an analyti…
Rethinking Real Estate Finance in the Wake of a Boom: A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Double Issue on Property and Finance in Environment and Planning A
Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of rental properties and platform rentierisation
Private renting increasingly comprises a complex ecosystem of actors who assemble housing within the market, and collect rental income and data from tenants, and data on the material assets themselves. Our analysis – at the intersection of rentier and platform capitalism – focuses on landed (material real estate) and technological (digital infrastructure and data) property in Australia’s private rental system. Drawing out relationships between th…
Digital Experiments with Landed Property: Robots, Race, and Rent
A wide range of digital innovations has changed property relations globally over the past fifteen years. What are we to make of these digital experiments with landed property? I argue we should not mistake their technological novelty for a break with the geographic and historical specificities of property relations. The yoking of property to modernity and civilization makes technological progress a fundamental part of how relationships to land ar…
Toward a research agenda at the intersections of housing and health
We would like to thank Terry Hartig for contributing his editorial vision and skill to this focus issue of Housing, Theory and Society. After hearing a much earlier presentation of this work at the
Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing
Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the S…
Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco's Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008-2020
Between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. technology industry increasingly shifted toward cities. Local governments pursuing innovation-led growth encouraged this shift, as exemplified by San Francisco, the spatial and symbolic urban home of the global technology industry. The commercial real estate market is central to understanding the city’s growth as a tech cluster between 2008 and 2020. Platform technology firms substan…
How it Works: Recovering Citizens in Post‐Welfare Philadelphia – By Robert P. Fairbanks
Deflating the Dream: Radical Risk and the Neoliberalization of Homeownership
This article explores the contributions of neoliberal practice to the expansion of homeownership and the foreclosure crisis to illuminate the contradictions between the rhetorical goals of homeownership and the actual experiences of new homeowners. In doing so we explore the theories and practices that homeowners deploy to try to survive and keep their lives together. First, we review the aspects of housing policy in neoliberal regimes that led m…
Toward a research agenda at the intersections of housing and health
We would like to thank Terry Hartig for contributing his editorial vision and skill to this focus issue of Housing, Theory and Society. After hearing a much earlier presentation of this work at the
Housing and Health: A Social Ecological Perspective on the US Foreclosure Crisis
This study adds to the literature linking housing and health by illustrating how poor health can increase the risk of foreclosure, and how the threat of foreclosure can negatively affect mental health. Our findings support the social ecological model of health and housing disparities and point to health care, employment, and social welfare policies as fundamental social causes that place populations at risk for foreclosure and illness. Medical de…
Mortgage Foreclosure and Health Disparities: Serial Displacement as Asset Extraction in African American Populations
How it Works: Recovering Citizens in Post‐Welfare Philadelphia – By Robert P. Fairbanks
Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space: Community Organizations and the Struggle to Preserve Affordable Rental Housing in New York City
As cities have become both site and object of capital accumulation in a neoliberal political economy, the challenges to community practice aimed at creating, preserving, and improving affordable housing and neighborhoods have grown. Financial markets and actors are increasingly central to the workings of capitalism, transforming the meaning and significance of mortgage capital in local communities and redrawing the relationship between housing an…
Rethinking Real Estate Finance in the Wake of a Boom: A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Double Issue on Property and Finance in Environment and Planning A
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
The financialisation of rental housing: A comparative analysis of New York City and Berlin
This paper compares how recent waves of private equity real estate investment have reshaped the rental housing markets in New York and Berlin. Through secondary analysis of separate primary research projects, we explore financialisation’s impact on tenants, neighbourhoods, and urban space. Despite their contrasting market contexts and investor strategies, financialisation heightened existing inequalities in housing affordability and stability, an…
The geopolitics of real estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights
The foundational assertion of Dallas Rogers's The Geopolitics of Real Estate is that understanding contemporary crises in land and real estate requires an extended timeline that gets at the 'deeper
Urban struggles with financialization
The 2008 financial crisis and its impacts on the urban landscape contributed to a proliferation of research on the financialization of urban space, particularly of housing. Today, financialization is a mainstream focus of study within geography. But while scholars have responded to earlier calls to center space and place in their research, it has only been quite recently that geographers have taken up efforts to politicize and contest the financi…
Unwilling Subjects of Financialization
This article seeks to advance debates about the financialization of housing by focusing on the emergence of rental housing as a frontier for financialization, a dynamic that is increasingly relevant since the global financial crisis. Situated in New York City, the research focuses on an aggressive wave of investment in affordable rent-stabilized properties by private equity firms, their efforts to release value from these properties, and the impl…
Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis
This article is concerned with new modes of property-led financial accumulation emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Focusing on the United States, the article traces the creation of an asset class derived from securitizing the rental income of foreclosed homes turned rental properties. The study strategically combines conceptual agendas often pursued separately. Theories of market formation rooted in science and technology studies …
Towards a Critical Housing Studies Research Agenda on Platform Real Estate
The pace and scope of digital innovation targeting the real estate industry has intensified over the past decade. This article is therefore concerned with the digitization of the residential real estate industry, and how critical housing scholars might shape a research agenda on this transformation. We set out platform logic, digital labor, and financialization as a conceptual vocabulary for studying new digital modalities of real estate practice…
RaquelRolnik2019: Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance. London: Verso Books
Platform methods: Studying platform urbanism outside the black box
This intervention reflects on critical perspectives on algorithms and geographical work on the urban-digital interface to highlight a set of approaches for studying the politics of platform urbanism. In several ways, platforms may be understood as black boxes due to the proprietary nature of algorithms, the secrecy of corporate ownership structures, and the emphasis on confidentiality and privacy in the venture capital industry. While thus raisin…
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
From Oakland to Barcelona to Berlin, housing activists are demanding the resocialization of housing and engaging in insurgent practices of reclaiming housing from corporate landlords. In contesting
Racialized geographies of housing financialization
Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing financialization rarely addresses the inextricable relationship between racism and capitalism. Racial division and subordination have always been necessary to producing value in real estate; financialization materially reproduces racial capitalism by reconfiguring the de…
Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation
This article centers the role of digital technologies in extending financial accumulation into new sectors of the US housing market in the wake of the global financial crisis. I argue that while post-crisis market conditions provided an opportunity for large investors to acquire foreclosed single-family homes, convert them to rental housing, and roll out an new asset class based on bundled rent checks, these conditions were insufficient on their …
Speculative urbanism
Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing
Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the S…
Speculative Urban Worldmaking: Meeting Financial Violence with a Politics of Collective Care
This article brings Black feminist thought to bear on the urban geography of racialised financial violence. Our analysis focuses on the Moms 4 Housing movement, which began when five Black mothers occupied a vacant, corporate investor‐owned house in West Oakland to protest how real estate speculation is fuelling displacement and homelessness for Black Oakland residents, disrupting care at the scale of the home and community. In taking space throu…
Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of rental properties and platform rentierisation
Private renting increasingly comprises a complex ecosystem of actors who assemble housing within the market, and collect rental income and data from tenants, and data on the material assets themselves. Our analysis – at the intersection of rentier and platform capitalism – focuses on landed (material real estate) and technological (digital infrastructure and data) property in Australia’s private rental system. Drawing out relationships between th…
Digital Experiments with Landed Property: Robots, Race, and Rent
A wide range of digital innovations has changed property relations globally over the past fifteen years. What are we to make of these digital experiments with landed property? I argue we should not mistake their technological novelty for a break with the geographic and historical specificities of property relations. The yoking of property to modernity and civilization makes technological progress a fundamental part of how relationships to land ar…
From Experimenting with Property to Experimenting on Place: A Rejoinder to Migozzi and Safransky
This rejoinder engages with the commentaries on my article on ‘Digital experiments with landed property’ from Julien Migozzi and Sara Safransky. In my response, I share my reflections on the valuable provocations and interrelated themes offered in these generous commentaries. First, I argue that an especially distinctive aspect of digital experiments with landed property is the volumetric property relations they are generating. Second, I attend t…
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