Beki Mcelvain
Biographic Data
| ID | 2298011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beki Mcelvain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beki |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcelvain |
| SIGNATURE | MCELVAIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2505-6161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to the book forum on Climate Finance
This introduction frames the book forum on Gareth Bryant and Sophie Webber’s Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures , which reframes climate finance not as a technical fix but as a contested political terrain. It outlines how financial instruments shape possible climate futures by privileging private capital over public good. Drawing from a 2025 AAG panel, the piece introduces commentaries that critically engage with the book’s con…
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair
As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecological breakdown, debt-driven precarity, and capital accumulation. This intervention contends that the uneven burden of climate risk introduces an ontological and epistemic interruption to the ways geographers interpret Southern urban theory. Increasingly…
Fixing” finance? The dialectical publics of resilient disaster governance in Mexico city
Urban disaster governance in global Southern cities is shaped by relationships with development finance institutions. As state capacity wanes, development finance is seen as an agenda-setting driver of “resilience” and “innovation” but needs an accommodating state to function at the urban scale. This study complicates claims that development finance can “fix” overaccumulated capital in global Southern cities through resilience efforts. In Mexico …
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries
This article is concerned with urbanization as it shapes and is shaped by disaster finance instruments. It takes a critical look at the specific urbanizing qualities of these instruments by bringing an established theory of peripheral urbanization together with recent work on disaster urbanization to advance a theory of ‘everyday disaster’—or smaller-scale events that occur repeatedly in the same areas, or events with extended recovery periods so…
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures
As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the U.S. housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regulators, and investors will variously encounter and manage climate risk is an urgent question for urban scholars, as is who might bear the costs of restabilizing mortgage finance under new breakdowns. …
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures
As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the U.S. housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regulators, and investors will variously encounter and manage climate risk is an urgent question for urban scholars, as is who might bear the costs of restabilizing mortgage finance under new breakdowns. …
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries
This article is concerned with urbanization as it shapes and is shaped by disaster finance instruments. It takes a critical look at the specific urbanizing qualities of these instruments by bringing an established theory of peripheral urbanization together with recent work on disaster urbanization to advance a theory of ‘everyday disaster’—or smaller-scale events that occur repeatedly in the same areas, or events with extended recovery periods so…
Fixing” finance? The dialectical publics of resilient disaster governance in Mexico city
Urban disaster governance in global Southern cities is shaped by relationships with development finance institutions. As state capacity wanes, development finance is seen as an agenda-setting driver of “resilience” and “innovation” but needs an accommodating state to function at the urban scale. This study complicates claims that development finance can “fix” overaccumulated capital in global Southern cities through resilience efforts. In Mexico …
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair
As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecological breakdown, debt-driven precarity, and capital accumulation. This intervention contends that the uneven burden of climate risk introduces an ontological and epistemic interruption to the ways geographers interpret Southern urban theory. Increasingly…
Fixing” finance? The dialectical publics of resilient disaster governance in Mexico city
Urban disaster governance in global Southern cities is shaped by relationships with development finance institutions. As state capacity wanes, development finance is seen as an agenda-setting driver of “resilience” and “innovation” but needs an accommodating state to function at the urban scale. This study complicates claims that development finance can “fix” overaccumulated capital in global Southern cities through resilience efforts. In Mexico …
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries
This article is concerned with urbanization as it shapes and is shaped by disaster finance instruments. It takes a critical look at the specific urbanizing qualities of these instruments by bringing an established theory of peripheral urbanization together with recent work on disaster urbanization to advance a theory of ‘everyday disaster’—or smaller-scale events that occur repeatedly in the same areas, or events with extended recovery periods so…
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures
As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the U.S. housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regulators, and investors will variously encounter and manage climate risk is an urgent question for urban scholars, as is who might bear the costs of restabilizing mortgage finance under new breakdowns. …
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair
As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecological breakdown, debt-driven precarity, and capital accumulation. This intervention contends that the uneven burden of climate risk introduces an ontological and epistemic interruption to the ways geographers interpret Southern urban theory. Increasingly…
Introduction to the book forum on Climate Finance
This introduction frames the book forum on Gareth Bryant and Sophie Webber’s Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures , which reframes climate finance not as a technical fix but as a contested political terrain. It outlines how financial instruments shape possible climate futures by privileging private capital over public good. Drawing from a 2025 AAG panel, the piece introduces commentaries that critically engage with the book’s con…
Climate change (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Futures contract (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works)