Over the last few decades we have witnessed a global U‐turn in prevailing housing and
urban policy agendas, spread around the world by the driving forces of globalization and …

This thesis analyses financialisation in developing countries. Financialisation is first
theoretically located within the distinctive characteristics of the contemporary world market …

Bislang war in deutschen Städten das Wohnen im Eigentum–entweder im Eigenheim oder
in der Eigentumswohnung–die Ausnahme. Insbesondere in Großstädten dominierte das …

The secondary circuit is a central element in the processes of capital accumulation, and its
relevance has become more acute in recent years as urban planning, housing, and real …

Vulnerability resulting from debt is part and parcel of the risk society and a salient
characteristic of current neoliberal times under financialized global capitalism. Rising …

Nos últimos dez anos no Brasil, o volume de contratações de financiamento habitacional
cresceu rapidamente. Paralelamente a esse crescimento nas contratações, há uma clara …

This paper argues that the ongoing financial and economic crisis creates an opportunity for
economic geography to move to a centre stage of academic debates about the nature of …

Social scientists have started to discuss the causes and consequences of the financial and
economic crisis of 2007–09, and have also started debating the role of neoliberalism in and …

Building on a biopolitical understanding of the economic crisis, this essay contends that the
occurrence of the crisis warns that life is not a real commodity but—to put it in K arl P olanyi's …

This paper assesses the relevance of mortgage-led consumption for the assemblage of
home. Drawing on qualitative research completed in the UK, we show how the materials and …