D Rogers
Biographic Data
| ID | 69739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Rogers |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogers |
| SIGNATURE | ROGERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9359-8958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 363 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Implications of tenant data collection in housing
Resident action and urban planning in post-political Sydney
The participation of residents in planning and development decision making is an increasingly common objective of government in cities like Sydney. The right to ‘have your say’ has been extended to those who are often most negatively affected by changes in our urban environments. Yet, processes of participatory planning and community engagement struggle to reconcile the varied expectations and desires that communities bring to the consultation ta…
Campus, collections, and the student
This article develops a framework for understanding the evolving spatial ontology of the contemporary university library. We conceptualise the library in three overlapping ways. First, as a material anchor of campus life and a metonym for the university’s identity; second, as a site where the fixity of collections intersects with the mobility of students, knowledge, and digital infrastructures; and third, as a spatial manifestation of how univers…
Housing’s values
Housing’s values are a key topic of public and policy debate, with discussions including the social value of housing in the form of human rights or care, rising property values, value-capture in infrastructure development, Indigenous values of land, and the value of housing for social reproduction. With this in mind, we engage with the various ways housing is valued, not as a reductive exercise to find ‘the value’ of housing but to recognise and …
Value theory in the country and the city
This special issue on ‘Value Theory in the Country and the City’ sets out to further a conversation about value and to do so by accepting the view that there are multiple ‘lives’ of value, which include Marx’s theory of capital as well as extending beyond it. Pragmatically, this issue is timely. Discussion of value in relation to the centrality of ground rent to uneven development, agrarian reform of the rural and resource extraction has become m…
Investor-Occupiers and the Cultural Capital of Architectural Design
Gaslighting Urban Planning? On Risk, Public Participation, and the Evolving Structures of Social Licence to Operate
This paper explores how coalitions of state, finance, and capital actors safeguard accumulation and monopolistic structural conditions while gesturing towards more inclusive cities, through what is described as gaslighting. Gaslighting is the manipulation of circumstances to sow doubt, normalising systemic oppression whilst invalidating testimonial capacities of the oppressed. Proponents of urban development deals require certainty. However, with…
Hostile nature and the settler-colonial city
Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia
This article addresses the process and patterns by which private property has been applied on the Australian continent. Alongside both lease-holdings that are limited by term or perpetual and squatting practices, identifying and documenting private property in both individual cases and in aggregate over a large geography offers a compelling approximation of the appearance and spread of British-Australian settlement. Plots and patterns of private …
Housing disruptions
China Anxiety
The rise of China and the rapid expansion of its middle class are having far-reaching impacts around the world. In Australia all manner of economic, social, and political issues are now infused with an anxiety about Chinese influence. This article explores two arenas that have to date received less public attention: the role of Chinese migrants and Chinese capital in Australian housing and education. In Australia and elsewhere, there is growing c…
Proptech and the private rental sector
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…
The social lives of rental proptech
Housing's value is contested, with discussions including the economic value of housing through literature on assetisation and financialisation, social value in debates about housing as a human right, value capture in infrastructure development, and the value of housing for social reproduction. With this in mind, we engage with the various ways housing, tenants and Proptech are valued by tenant advocates, real estate professionals, and proptech de…
Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning
This paper traces and critiques gaslighting - the manipulation of circumstances by elite actors to sow doubt or confusion in residents over what is 'real' - as an affective experience of infrastructure planning. Predominantly observed within intimate relationships, scholars now identify gaslighting as a structural condition that manipulates whole communities and reproduces systemic oppression. We concur, extending analysis to the realm of urban i…
Spooky concepts and urban studies
From the metaphor-soaked concepts of Dracula urbanism, the Vampire index, Frankenstein urbanism and zombie neoliberalism to the idea of a vampire property-holding class, conceptual metaphors are a repeating theme in urban studies. Once you are alert to their presence, conceptual metaphors seem to be everywhere, operating as key literary devices, productive interpretive tactics and critical discursive manoeuvres in the field. And if it is true tha…
Cities in Covid-19
Cities in COVID-19: Reconsidering Urban Form, Mobility, Housing and Planning in Australasia
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society
Rental discrimination is a key factor in the reproduction of socio-economic inequality under emergent rentier capitalism within the asset society. Our research into the effects of discrimination in the Australian private rental sector shows how factors including age, race, gender and socio-economic status intersect to shape experiences of discrimination. A compounding and exponential discriminatory burden – financial, psychological, and physical …
Chinese property developers after the decline in foreign real estate investment in Sydney, Australia
This study investigates how Chinese developers responded to the changing patterns of investment in residential real estate in Sydney since 2010. The analysis also outlines the key lessons for cities around the world with high levels of Chinese foreign buyers and developers, which may experience a similar foreign real estate investment decline as a result of changing dynamics in domestic real estate markets, changes in China, and/or wider changes …
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation
In this commentary, we argue that augmented concepts and research methods are needed to comprehend hybrid urban governance reconfigurations that benefit market actors but eschew competition in favour of deal-making between elite state and private actors. Fuelled by financialisation and in response to planning conflict are regulatory reforms that legitimise opaque alliances in service of infrastructure and urban development projects. From a specif…
Geographies of Covid-19
Photo credit: Fusion Medical Animation. Note: This editorial is for a virtual issue the journal editorial team has curated with Dallas Rogers and Matthew Kearns, who have written this piece. See here for the suite of papers in the collection. We are currently working on a second series on this crucially important topic. [Editor-in-Chief] The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 has precipitated profound social, economic, and political disr…
Nautico-imperialism and settler-colonialism
This article outlines the role of rivers and oceans in colonial land 'settlement' in Sydney. The analysis exposes a form of thalassic colonisation, whereby territoriality was a defining feature of settler-colonialism in the first decades of the colonial invasion, but wherein claiming and/or controlling vast bodies of water was necessary to that territoriality. Britain was a maritime empire and Sydney a maritime town in the late eighteenth and ear…
The university and the city
This paper responds to a recent EPA Exchanges paper by Eric Knight, Andrew Jones and Meric Gertler ( Knight et al., 2021 ). It concurs with their argument for the significance of economic geography for explaining the "local-global" dilemmas facing the university in contemporary society. In response, it will propose three additional optics for understanding the role of the university in the contemporary city. First, as a space of risk, where the n…
Emplaced Displacement and Public Housing Redevelopment
This article reports on a study of the Waterloo public housing estate in Sydney, Australia. In 2015, the state government announced the inner-city estate would be redeveloped to accommodate some affordable/social dwellings (30%) but with the majority of new dwellings being private market housing (70%). Based on ethnographic research conducted with residents of Waterloo between 2010 and 2017, we analyze the Waterloo redevelopment as an example of …
The institutional logic of property inflation
Unsolicited urbanism
This article identifies the evolution of, and critiques, unsolicited urbanism-a project of city-shaping favouring powerful market actors but inconsistent with the neoliberal tenet of competition. Marked by predetermined outcomes, unsolicited urbanism legitimates secretive monopolies over specific sites and the normalization of planning-as-deal-making. Such features are not uncommon globally, as circuits of capital seek rent opportunities latent i…
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…
The Politics of Foreign Investment in Australian Housing
This article analyses the cultural, housing and intergovernmental politics of individual foreign investment in Australian real estate. The first section provides a brief history of Australia's housing system and shows the historical trend toward housing affordability 'problems' in Sydney and Melbourne. This review interrogates the claim Chinese investors compounded Australia's housing affordability problem after the global financial crisis. The s…
Televised Territorial Stigma
This paper explores the issue of territorial stigmatisation through tenant-driven research chronicling the experiences of social housing tenants as they examined and reflected upon the Australian television series Housos. The television series aired on an independent, part publicly funded, television station in 2011 and depicts the lifestyles of fictional tenant characters on an imaginary social housing estate. The series presents satirical and e…
Cultural platform capitalism
This paper contributes to the ‘digital turn’ in geography and to conceptualizations of cognitive capitalism by focusing on how changing forms of cultural representation in the digital world constitute new forms of value extraction. It takes as a key case study the RealTech company Juwai; one of the largest transnational digital platforms connecting international estate agents and Chinese buyers. Positioning the digital platform as a site in which…
Education, real estate, immigration
Mobilities of people and capital from Asia to Australia now encompass policies and practices that link immigration, citizenship, international education and real estate investment in complex and entangled ways. These mobilities are mediated by ‘brokerage assemblages’ that cut across state, non-state, human and non-human actors and processes. This article’s primary contribution is to establish how assemblage thinking can be productive for understa…
Place, political culture and post-Green Ban resistance
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society
Rental discrimination is a key factor in the reproduction of socio-economic inequality under emergent rentier capitalism within the asset society. Our research into the effects of discrimination in the Australian private rental sector shows how factors including age, race, gender and socio-economic status intersect to shape experiences of discrimination. A compounding and exponential discriminatory burden – financial, psychological, and physical …
Thinking relationally about housing and home
In 2008, in Housing Studies, Gabriel & Jacobs (2008) reviewed developments in ‘post-social’ theory in housing studies. Their article noted the dearth of current literature and aimed to provoke furt
Public perceptions of foreign and Chinese real estate investment
Moving foreign human and financial capital through landed property is not a new phenomenon in Sydney. It is a recurring geopolitical strategy that is replete with intercultural tension and deep colonial roots. In contemporary Australia, there is an assumption in public policy and media rhetoric that there is a high level of public concern about foreign investment. However, there is little empirical data that examines public perceptions. In this s…
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation
In this commentary, we argue that augmented concepts and research methods are needed to comprehend hybrid urban governance reconfigurations that benefit market actors but eschew competition in favour of deal-making between elite state and private actors. Fuelled by financialisation and in response to planning conflict are regulatory reforms that legitimise opaque alliances in service of infrastructure and urban development projects. From a specif…
Unsolicited urbanism
This article identifies the evolution of, and critiques, unsolicited urbanism-a project of city-shaping favouring powerful market actors but inconsistent with the neoliberal tenet of competition. Marked by predetermined outcomes, unsolicited urbanism legitimates secretive monopolies over specific sites and the normalization of planning-as-deal-making. Such features are not uncommon globally, as circuits of capital seek rent opportunities latent i…
Tracing resident antagonisms in urban development
This article draws on research with resident action groups and other alliances in Sydney. It investigates the ways in which citizens work beyond the formal planning system to approach and achieve their urban development goals. The post-political treatment of community voices in planning relies on the centrality of consensus politics in current participatory planning regimes. By providing a democratic outlet that is far removed from the actual dev…
The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy as a Zoning Technology
This paper provides two discrete contributions to urban and spatial theory. The first demonstrates that within discourse analysis conceptions of time and space have analytical utility for investigations into the framings of social and urban policy. The second moves analyses of urban obsolescence beyond Marxism to demonstrate that Foucauldian theory can provide revealing insights about the stewardship of discourses of urban obsolescence through te…
Planning the post-political city
This special section examines the possibility of meaningful debate and contestation over urban decisions and futures in politically constrained contexts. In doing so, it moves with the post-political times: critically examining the proliferation of deliberative mechanisms; identifying the informal assemblages of diverse actors taking on new roles in urban socio-spatial justice; and illuminating the spaces where informal and formal planning proces…
The Poetics of Cartography and Habitation
This article brings Proust and Bachelard into conversation about inhabiting the home and the role that remembrance, memory and the imagination might play in producing knowledge about the world. Proust and Bachelard both suggest that once a material object, such as a house, has been seized upon by the imagination by those who inhabit the dwelling, it no longer makes sense to assess the space-of-home using “objective” or “mathematical” modalities. …
The politics of value in urban development
In this article, we consider the role of value pluralism in theorising urban development and the politics of participatory planning. Rather than situating analyses of urban development in a monist or universalist ethics, where values are reducible to a single universal (e.g. human rights), or a normative pluralism based on the tension between different bearers of political value (e.g. liberty and equality), we argue for a plural ethics to make se…
Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation
In this ‘Thinking Space’ essay we revisit Maurie Daly’s 1982 book Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust, fuelled by concern for how Australian cities are being transformed by financialised real estate. Daly's insights remain highly relevant to Sydney and other cities around Australia and the world today. Poorly planned densification, inflated property markets, land speculation, and housing poverty are all outcomes of the (global) capitalist intersection of fi…
The social lives of rental proptech
Housing's value is contested, with discussions including the economic value of housing through literature on assetisation and financialisation, social value in debates about housing as a human right, value capture in infrastructure development, and the value of housing for social reproduction. With this in mind, we engage with the various ways housing, tenants and Proptech are valued by tenant advocates, real estate professionals, and proptech de…
Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning
This paper traces and critiques gaslighting - the manipulation of circumstances by elite actors to sow doubt or confusion in residents over what is 'real' - as an affective experience of infrastructure planning. Predominantly observed within intimate relationships, scholars now identify gaslighting as a structural condition that manipulates whole communities and reproduces systemic oppression. We concur, extending analysis to the realm of urban i…
Geographies of hyper-commodified housing
The latest manifestation of Asian-led foreign real estate investment in some global cities is contributing to housing becoming a liquid, global asset. Drawing on empirical data about Sydneysiders' reported levels of real estate market activity, housing stress, and views about foreign real estate investment, we found that those who are financially invested in Sydney's local real estate market are generally more supportive of the presence of foreig…
Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia
This article addresses the process and patterns by which private property has been applied on the Australian continent. Alongside both lease-holdings that are limited by term or perpetual and squatting practices, identifying and documenting private property in both individual cases and in aggregate over a large geography offers a compelling approximation of the appearance and spread of British-Australian settlement. Plots and patterns of private …
Nautico-imperialism and settler-colonialism
This article outlines the role of rivers and oceans in colonial land 'settlement' in Sydney. The analysis exposes a form of thalassic colonisation, whereby territoriality was a defining feature of settler-colonialism in the first decades of the colonial invasion, but wherein claiming and/or controlling vast bodies of water was necessary to that territoriality. Britain was a maritime empire and Sydney a maritime town in the late eighteenth and ear…
Proptech and the private rental sector
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…
The City Under Covid‐19
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
Geographies of Covid-19
Photo credit: Fusion Medical Animation. Note: This editorial is for a virtual issue the journal editorial team has curated with Dallas Rogers and Matthew Kearns, who have written this piece. See here for the suite of papers in the collection. We are currently working on a second series on this crucially important topic. [Editor-in-Chief] The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 has precipitated profound social, economic, and political disr…
New and Selected Essays
Politics after Hitler
`The demise of the Cold War requires that we look back to the moment and place of its birth in order to reassess those institutions most affected by it. Politics After Hitler is a significant contribu
The Threat of Agroterrorism to Australia
This article provides a preliminary assessment of the agroterrorism threat to Australia. Based on primary research conducted among Australia's biotechnology and agriculture sectors, it examines current threat scenarios and existing vulnerabilities within Australia. It argues that the threat of agroterrorism to Australia is real, and, for prudential reasons, should be taken more seriously by government authorities. The article concludes with a ser…
The Poetics of Cartography and Habitation
This article brings Proust and Bachelard into conversation about inhabiting the home and the role that remembrance, memory and the imagination might play in producing knowledge about the world. Proust and Bachelard both suggest that once a material object, such as a house, has been seized upon by the imagination by those who inhabit the dwelling, it no longer makes sense to assess the space-of-home using “objective” or “mathematical” modalities. …
Risk
Journal Article Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society Get access Arwen P. Mohun. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x, 329 pp. $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1226–1227, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau048 Published: 01 March 2014
Televised Territorial Stigma
This paper explores the issue of territorial stigmatisation through tenant-driven research chronicling the experiences of social housing tenants as they examined and reflected upon the Australian television series Housos. The television series aired on an independent, part publicly funded, television station in 2011 and depicts the lifestyles of fictional tenant characters on an imaginary social housing estate. The series presents satirical and e…
The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy as a Zoning Technology
This paper provides two discrete contributions to urban and spatial theory. The first demonstrates that within discourse analysis conceptions of time and space have analytical utility for investigations into the framings of social and urban policy. The second moves analyses of urban obsolescence beyond Marxism to demonstrate that Foucauldian theory can provide revealing insights about the stewardship of discourses of urban obsolescence through te…
Housing and Socio-Spatial Inclusion
This special issue on housing and socio-spatial inclusion had its genesis in the 5th Housing Theory Symposium (HTS) on the theme of housing and space, held in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. In late 2013 we put out a call for papers in an attempt to collect an initial suite of theoretical and empirical scholarship on this theme. This collection of articles progresses our initial discussions about the theoretical implications of adding the “social” t…
The Politics of Foreign Investment in Australian Housing
This article analyses the cultural, housing and intergovernmental politics of individual foreign investment in Australian real estate. The first section provides a brief history of Australia's housing system and shows the historical trend toward housing affordability 'problems' in Sydney and Melbourne. This review interrogates the claim Chinese investors compounded Australia's housing affordability problem after the global financial crisis. The s…
Place, political culture and post-Green Ban resistance
No Place Like Home
Brian McCabe has written a lucid monograph about one of the most important shifts in real estate subjectivity to occur during the 20th century; namely the shift from thinking about homeownership as
Public perceptions of foreign and Chinese real estate investment
Moving foreign human and financial capital through landed property is not a new phenomenon in Sydney. It is a recurring geopolitical strategy that is replete with intercultural tension and deep colonial roots. In contemporary Australia, there is an assumption in public policy and media rhetoric that there is a high level of public concern about foreign investment. However, there is little empirical data that examines public perceptions. In this s…
Education, real estate, immigration
Mobilities of people and capital from Asia to Australia now encompass policies and practices that link immigration, citizenship, international education and real estate investment in complex and entangled ways. These mobilities are mediated by ‘brokerage assemblages’ that cut across state, non-state, human and non-human actors and processes. This article’s primary contribution is to establish how assemblage thinking can be productive for understa…
Assemblage theory and the ontological limitations of speculative realism
Beyond the post-political
This special section builds on Planning the Post-Political City-Part 1 to examine if and how planning is showing signs of a post-democratic turn taking place in Australian cities. In Part 1, we presented a collection of papers examining Australia as a post-political landscape, exploring the new ways in which Australian publics are resisting dominant neoliberal practices and logics of growth and, in doing so, are intervening in decision-making pra…
"Australian urban geographies of housing in the context of the rise of China in the "Asian Century
Geographies of hyper-commodified housing
The latest manifestation of Asian-led foreign real estate investment in some global cities is contributing to housing becoming a liquid, global asset. Drawing on empirical data about Sydneysiders' reported levels of real estate market activity, housing stress, and views about foreign real estate investment, we found that those who are financially invested in Sydney's local real estate market are generally more supportive of the presence of foreig…
Tracing resident antagonisms in urban development
This article draws on research with resident action groups and other alliances in Sydney. It investigates the ways in which citizens work beyond the formal planning system to approach and achieve their urban development goals. The post-political treatment of community voices in planning relies on the centrality of consensus politics in current participatory planning regimes. By providing a democratic outlet that is far removed from the actual dev…
Planning the post-political city
This special section examines the possibility of meaningful debate and contestation over urban decisions and futures in politically constrained contexts. In doing so, it moves with the post-political times: critically examining the proliferation of deliberative mechanisms; identifying the informal assemblages of diverse actors taking on new roles in urban socio-spatial justice; and illuminating the spaces where informal and formal planning proces…
The politics of value in urban development
In this article, we consider the role of value pluralism in theorising urban development and the politics of participatory planning. Rather than situating analyses of urban development in a monist or universalist ethics, where values are reducible to a single universal (e.g. human rights), or a normative pluralism based on the tension between different bearers of political value (e.g. liberty and equality), we argue for a plural ethics to make se…
Gentrification and displacement
Gentrification and displacement: the forced relocation of public housing tenants in inner-Sydney." Housing, Theory and Society, 36(3), pp. 382–383
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…
Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation
In this ‘Thinking Space’ essay we revisit Maurie Daly’s 1982 book Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust, fuelled by concern for how Australian cities are being transformed by financialised real estate. Daly's insights remain highly relevant to Sydney and other cities around Australia and the world today. Poorly planned densification, inflated property markets, land speculation, and housing poverty are all outcomes of the (global) capitalist intersection of fi…
Creating a thinking space for the rising stars of Australian urban geography
The Institute of Australian Geographers Urban Study Group and Australian Geographer present the first essay in our Leading Insights/Thinking Space partnership. We discuss Dr Natalie Osborne's 2018 essay, flag Dr Marilu Melo's 2019 essay and talk about creating a thinking space for the rising stars of Australian urban geography
Rent and crisis
The coronavirus pandemic is opening up a space for housing advocates and scholars to push for reforms to the private rental sector. Yet, we argue the Australian government has shown little commitment to addressing long-term, structural housing issues. Temporary reform will not lead to a new or more socially just housing system in the long-term—a new housing normal—without a significant and nation-wide tenant campaign. Like others, we are working …
Political science (37 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (28 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Law (26 works) · Economics (24 works) · Politics (23 works) · Business (20 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Real estate (15 works)