nav-icons nav-icons
Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
LOGIN REGISTER
LOGIN
REGISTER
linklink
  • Home
  • About
  • Manchester University Press Book Series
  • Past & Present Reading Group
  • A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • JAPE Submission Guidelines
    • JAPE Issues
    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Other Reading Groups
    • The Rubicon Reading Group
    • Marxism Reading Group
    • Journal Club
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
    • Unconventional Wisdom
  • Wheelwright Lecture
  • Events
  • Contributors
  • Links
    • Political Economy At Sydney
    • PHD in Political Economy
    • Master of Political Economy
    • Centre for Future Work
    • Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ)
    • Climate Justice Research Centre (UTS)
Speculative Finance and the Transformation of the Social
Previous
The Unknown Hyman Minsky
Next

Masterclass: “We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Problematising Property Financialisation

by Brett Christophers on September 14, 2018

Masterclass: “We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Problematising Property Financialisation

Brett Christophers | September 14, 2018

Tags: finance
finance
| 0 269

‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’: Problematising Property Financialisation

Masterclass with Rachel Weber (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Brett Christophers (Uppsala University)

In this seminar we discuss the burgeoning literature in geography and urban studies on the financialisation of assets in general and property assets in particular. Our aim is to identify and critically reflect on some of the main conceptual and methodological challenges and problems apparent in that literature. We also discuss how we have tried to grapple with these challenges and problems in our own recent research on urban austerity and financialisation – one of us (Weber) in the context of public capital budgeting and commercial property development in the US, the other (Christophers) in the context of local-authority housing companies and commercial property development in England.

Location: Charles Perkins Centre Seminar Rm. 1.1, University of Sydney

Date and time: 18 October, 2:00-5:00pm

Registration: email David Primrose (david.primrose@sydney.edu.au)

Readings:

  • Ashton, P., Doussard, M., & Weber, R. (2016). Reconstituting the state: City powers and exposures in Chicago’s infrastructure leases. Urban Studies, 53(7), pp. 1384-1400.
  • Christophers, B. (2015). The limits to financialisation. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(2), pp. 183-200.
  • Christophers, B., Leyshon, A., & Mann, G. (2017). Money and Finance After the Crisis: Taking Critical Stock. In Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times (pp. 1-40).

Share this post

  • Tweet
  • Share Post:

Author: Brett Christophers

Brett Christophers has degrees from the Universities of Oxford, British Columbia and Auckland and is Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. The author of four books, Brett’s research ranges widely across the political and cultural economies of Western capitalism, in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Particular interests include money, finance and banking; housing and housing policy; urban political economy; markets and pricing; accounting, modelling and other calculative practices; competition and intellectual property law; and the cultural industries and discourses of ‘creativity’

Related Posts

 

Green Structural Adjustment in The World Bank’s Resilient Cities

Cities across the world are facing a double-barreled existential problem: how to adapt to climate change and how to pay for it. Over the next thirty years, more than 570 coastal...

 

COVID Life and the Asset Economy

Following the 2007/08 financial crisis the creation of a less unequal and fairer world appeared to be a major prospect. As is by now all too familiar, after the financial crisis...

 

Rethinking Microfinance in Post-War Sri Lanka: Mobilisation and Call for Reform

“First, it was the tsunami that destroyed our community. Then came the war. Now, it’s microfinance.” — Jesudadan Rajitha, The Federation of Women’s Rural Develop...

 

Facing a liquidity tsunami? Profit, risk, and discipline in emerging markets

In April 2012, at the White House on her first visit to the United States since her election in 2010, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff scolded advanced capitalist economies f...

Comments

Leave a Response Cancel reply


Join our mailing list

© Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Privacy | Terms and Conditions

  • Home
  • About
  • Manchester University Press Book Series
  • Past & Present Reading Group
  • A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
    • JAPE Submission Guidelines
    • JAPE Issues
    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Other Reading Groups
    • The Rubicon Reading Group
    • Marxism Reading Group
    • Journal Club
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
    • Unconventional Wisdom
  • Wheelwright Lecture
  • Events
  • Contributors
  • Links
    • Political Economy At Sydney
    • PHD in Political Economy
    • Master of Political Economy
    • Centre for Future Work
    • Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ)
    • Climate Justice Research Centre (UTS)