Urban struggles with financialization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Fields (0000-0001-6959-8803, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12334 |
| OpenAlex | W2750488213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 81 |
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 financialization of urban space. This essay assesses the emerging body of literature on urban struggles with financialization. It first draws on historical materialist perspectives to situate financialization within urban contexts, showing why there is a particular relationship between this process and urban space, and how moments of crisis reveal tensions in this relationship. Reviewing literature focused on places exposed to the most systemic housing-financial crises in 2008, the essay then explores how residents, activists, and movements have grappled with financialization. It argues that a key aspect of such struggles is the ability to make their presence felt within chains of financial intermediaries or the corporate headquarters of foreign investors. The essay also highlights how moments of crisis open space for more radical tactics that disrupt the dominant production of space and emphasize the social value of housing. It suggests ways to fruitfully expand geographic inquiry into urban struggles with financialization through focusing on the formation of political subjectivities and engaging geographies beyond the global north
Economic geography · Economics · Financial crisis · Financialization · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban theory · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Finance
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State de-financialisation through incorporating local government bonds in the budgetary process in China
A structural view on housing movements
Planning Just Futures
Tenant Organizing as a Pathway to Decoupling Wealth and Power
Space and the precariat
Proximity or opportunity? Spatial and market determinants of private individuals’ buy-to-let investments
Corporate landlords and disruption through consolidation in post-crash Dublin’s private rental sector
Introducing the Yimbys
Securing financial returns in politically uncertain worlds
Negotiations of Urban Ontological Security
Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Renters' revolt
Introduction
The game of rental housing financialization
After the crisis is before the crisis
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki
Reimagining geographies of public finance
Mobilities I
Racialized geographies of housing financialization
Maintaining Rental Housing as an Asset
“Take away the greed of the private landlord housing market … because is killing people”
Capital and conscience
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin
Down and out in Dhaka
From displacements to rent control and housing justice
New dynamics of rent gap formation in New York City rent-regulated housing
Housing financialisation a la Griega
Vacancy at the edges of the precarious city
Financialized gentrification, demoviction, and landlord tactics to demobilize tenant organizing
Universities as asset class
Financialization of urban development in China
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China
Contesting the financialization of student accommodation
Operationalizing the problem of political alienation for housing studies
Cracking the housing crisis
Digital/material housing financialisation and activism in post-crash Dublin
Producing gentrifiable neighborhoods
Struggles against financialisation of housing in Lisbon – the case of Habita
Need for shelter, demand for housing, desire for home
The de-financialization of housing
Financialization in the making of the new Wuhan
Resistance Against and Beyond Financialisation from the Vantage Point of Social Reproduction
Flowing Capital‐Disrupted Homes
Money is Not the Problem”
Diasporic capital and the financialisation of housing in Ho Chi Minh City
Planning for sufficiency shared housing
Leveraging the collective
The rise (and rise) of vertical studentification
The financialisation of urban infrastructure
Contesting housing commodification and financialization through bridging
The financialization of everyday life
Geographies of hyper-commodified housing
When data is capital
Risk capital
Fighting to undo a deal
Crops, claims and the politics of risk in India's agricultural insurance programme
Anti-Public Finance? The Democratic Effects of Municipal Bond Markets
Financialized Gentrification and Class Composition in the Post-Industrial City
Mega-Real Estate Speculation and Racialized Dispossession
The story of property
Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning
Global Capital Markets
The Financialization of Housing
Cultures of Financialization
The Everyday Life of Global Finance
Forces of Labor
The Financial Engineering of Infrastructure Privatization
Financialisation and the slowdown of accumulation
Financial crisis, austerity, and health in Europe
Neoliberal Urbanism
Austerity
Capitalizing on Crisis
Bad banks
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
Situating global finance in the Land Rush Debate
The limits to financialization
Topological twists
The potential for financialization
A very geographical crisis
The local geographies of the financial crisis
Social Movements and Alternative Housing Models
The urban process under financialised capitalism
Reclaiming the right to the city
Speculating on London's housing future
The ‘Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements
The Mortgage Crisis
Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space
The whereabouts of power
Development geography II
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin
Capitalism and world (dis)order
Global finance and the land grab
Speculating on Everyday Life
The State and Financialization of Public Land in the United Kingdom
The Spatial Fix Revisited
Subprime Housing Goes South
Reconstituting the state
Financialisation and justice in the city
Introduction
Financial markets, developers and the geographies of housing in Brazil
Mortgaged lives’
On voodoo economics
From financialization to operations of capital
Revisiting the Urbanization of Capital
Geographies of the financial crisis
Militant research against‐and‐beyond itself
The Eurozone Crisis and Emerging‐Market Expansion
The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered
TheIndignadosof Spain
In Defense of the Community Reinvestment Act
The Dark Side of NY-LON
Financializing space, spacing financialization
The Financialization of Urban Redevelopment
Infrastructure Financing and Operation in the Contemporary City
The Rules of Abstraction
From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing
Asset Price Urbanism' and Financialization after the Crisis
Post-Industrial Widgets
Resisting devaluation
Late Neoliberalism
World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization
Unwilling Subjects of Financialization
Struggling for the Right to the (Creative) City in Berlin and Hamburg
Laying the Foundations for a Crisis
Activists in the Making
The financialization of the American economy
The Financial Exception and the Reconfiguration of Credit Risk in US Mortgage Markets
Rethinking Real Estate Finance in the Wake of a Boom
Managing fictitious capital
Cartographies of Race and Class
Economic Geographies of Financialization
Shareholder value and Financialization
Financialization, distance and global food politics
| Unique citing works | 62 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |