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June 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And Michaela Hamilton, University of Sussex. Her research explores monetary policy in a fascinating paper that examines calculative practices in the mortgage markets as an 'anchor' for statecraft
June 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Siyue Wang, City University of Hong Kong, who discussed the curation of value through the strategic deployment of contemporary art as a means to boost the value of real estate
June 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Logging in again to make sure we give shout-outs to two more paper presenters for whom we unfortunately didn't get pics!
June 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
That's a wrap for today after two days of great papers by keynotes and early career researchers. Watch this space, and follow @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social for their summer programme over the coming two weeks!
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
And to round off our workshop, our own Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social presented her research on real estate wealth chains in Belgium and Portugal
June 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
In our other breakout session, we had Andreas Kanaris Miyashiro on valuation and financial fragility
June 24, 2025 at 2:45 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