The limits to financialization

By Brett Christophers. 2015

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Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The de-financialization of housing: towards a research agenda (2020, background): “(Housing) financialization is sometimes criticized for being an amorphous concept (Christophers, 2015).”
Towards an economic geography of FinTech (2020, background): “Financialization is no doubt a contested and multifarious concept (Christophers, 2015; Hall, 2011; Pike and Pollard, 2010), but for our purposes we modify French et al.’s (2011) more Foucauldian definition of financialization as ‘the processes and particular effects of the growing power of…”
Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis (2018, background): “Such work fails to illuminate the concerted effort, supporting infrastructures, and practices that allow financializing projects to come to fruition (or disruptions causing them to fail) (Ouma 2015; Poovey 2015; Christophers 2015a).”
Climate finance governance: Fit for purpose? (2021, background): “…2018), also related to similar work on the financialization of development finance more generically (Mawdsley, 2018), and in urban climate policy (Long & Rice, 2019) despite the known problems with the vagueness and overuse of the financialization concept (Christophers, 2015; Ouma et al., 2018).”
How real estate became ‘just another asset class’: the financialization of the investment strategies of Dutch institutional investors (2017, background): “But, as studies often focus on the © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group CONTACT Jannes van Loon jannes.vanloon@kuleuven.be effects of the rise of financialized capitalism, ‘finance itself… is all too often black boxed’ (Christophers, 2015, p. 191).”
Generation rent and the financialization of housing: a comparative exploration of the growth of the private rental sector in Ireland, the UK and Spain (2020, background): “…light on the interaction of the financialization of housing and neoliberalism in shaping the growth of the PRS. Finally, the concept of the financialization of housing is somewhat ‘diffuse’ (Dewilde, 2018; for a wider critical reflection on the limitations of the concept see Christophers, 2015).”
Getting soaked? Climate crisis, adaptation finance, and racialized austerity (2020, background): “This narrative has faced increasing push-back in recent years, with authors like Dempsey and Suarez (2016), Christophers (2015), and Ouma (2015), questioning the extent to which nature is meaningfully ‘‘financialized,’’ or indeed the transformativepotential ofgreenfinance ingeneral.”
Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020, background): “…processes taking place across other and multiple domains are also likely to feature more strongly in future research, not least because the ‘limits’ (Christophers, 2015) of the present movement of financialized capitalism have become increasingly apparent as the global pandemic has taken hold.”
State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies (2020, background): “Furthermore, its use does not offer ‘ready-made analytical expedience and insight’, and as a whole, its critical properties have not been sufficiently established (see Christophers, 2015: 184).”
The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing: From trailer to tower (2020, background): “While broad definitions of financialization and its frequent usage have been critiqued (e.g. Christophers, 2015), the concept has been defended for its power in making sense of changes in capitalism, and in turn how these changes affect societies (Aalbers, 2015).”
Subordinated Financial Integration and Financialisation in Emerging Capitalist Economies: The Brazilian Experience (2018, methodology): “However, we agree with Christophers (2015) that there is a need for greater analytical and empirical precision about the concept of financialisation being used.”