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Hannah Sender also presented her research on financial assets in the context of domicide through Israeli violence in Lebanon
June 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This paper critically draws on Katharina Pistor's work in exploring the multiple legal and customary property forms that shape rights to assets at different scales
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Gustav Kalm presents his paper, 'Who owns the Simandou Mountain, and to what effect?', exploring the legal infrastructures that underpin the leverage of mining rights in Guinea
June 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Up next we have Ana Ligia Magalhães, carrying on the infrastructural theme through an analysis of subordinate financialisation and PPP risk management in Brazil
June 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In our final afternoon breakout session, Zhengli Huang from @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social presents her research on contested values within global infrastructure corridors
June 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
And Emanuele Sciuva from the Politecnico di Torino discussing his paper 'Siliconizing Lisbon: Arbitrage and Value Extraction in the Making of a Nomadland'
June 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
From yesterday we also had the University of Sheffield's Niall Docherty discussing user habits and digital platforms
June 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Drawing on Alami and Dixon's critical reading of state capitalism literature, Sarah Hall argues for the need to explore how state action and finance shape one another in different domains
June 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
After lunch, Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social in our final plenary is arguing for the need to take borders seriously as a missing analytical category in the spatialisation of finance
June 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Some fascinating links between interlegality and the role of law being drawn across all four papers in the panel discussion
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Some fascinating links between interlegality and the role of law being drawn across all four papers in the panel discussion
June 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Finally for this morning's session we have Sara Bencekovic from Luxembourg's Fincity project discussing anthropological theories of value as a site of conflict
June 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
For instance, measurements used to calculate 'green' bonds can detach projects from their context and purpose
June 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Claire Debucquois presenting her paper on 'green slicing' the Amazon, exploring how legal and accounting rules elevate proxy measures for sustainability that obscure other forms of accountability
June 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Now Maria Cariola Eriksson is discussing how the legal 'fixing' of value is co-constitutuve with processes of extraction, using the example of green transitions in Chile
June 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
In our first paper session, Annika Reinke is presenting her research on climate adaptation and disaster risk management
June 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Starting our second day with an opening talk by Valbona Muzaka of Uppsala University on how assets are made through the 'alchemy' of international investment law
June 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
That's a wrap for today. We'll be back for the second day tomorrow to hear from Valbona Muzaka of Uppsala University on public policy and the asset form
June 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
To conclude our first day of the workshop we have Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social arguing for an analysis of the firm as simultaneously a legal and a financial reporting infrastructure
June 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In the afternoon breakout sessions, Aurora Echevarria is talking about ad hoc, path dependent forms of measuring property value
June 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Information asymmetries central in their view to structuring the relationships between clients, suppliers and regulators, with implications for how wealth flows through tax havens
June 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Afternoon sessions getting underway with Len Seabrooke and Duncan Wigan presenting as a double act on global wealth chains
June 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ka Chi Yip presenting his PhD research on how property market valuation is understood by leaseholders in Hong Kong
June 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Maedhbh Nic Lochlain @maedhbhlikedave discussing how speculation is discursively packaged by the investment industry, and its contribution to the de- and re-valuation of urban space
June 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Now in the breakout sessions, with Frances Brill talking through the politics of ESG as understood by investors
June 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM