Demand for owner-occupied housing has expanded dramatically across modern-
industrialized societies in recent years leading to volatile increases in residential property …

The paper develops a sympathetic geographical critique of the concept of financialization
which seeks to account for the growing influence of financial markets over the unfolding of …

This article argues that financialization—shorthand for the growing influence of capital
markets, their intermediaries, and processes in contemporary economic and political life …

In this paper I stage an encounter between two concepts that have become popular
placeholders for a broad concern with a politics of life: affect and biopower. Through …

Coe NM, Lai KPY and Wójcik D. Integrating finance into global production networks,
Regional Studies. While successful in its aim of 'globalizing'regional development, the …

Homeownership has been declining in favour of private renting in most developed English
speaking countries since the early-2000s. Public debates in countries like Britain, Australia …

Over the last decade or so there has been an identifiable shift in the interests of many
economic geographers towards a concern with practices: stabilized, routinized, or …

Scholars have come to recognize that financialization is a political phenomenon not only for
its roots in political decisions and processes, but also for its consequences over the political …

In this report, I examine the growing interest in financial subjects within economic geography
and the wider social sciences. I begin by locating this literature within work on …

The crisis gripping financial markets in late 2008 had brought about multiple bank failures,
both investment and commercial, in the USA and Europe, as well as insolvency of the …