Brett Christophers
Professor at Kulturgeografiska institutionen
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 442 81 36
- E-mail:
- brett.christophers@kultgeog.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
- Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Professor at Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 442 81 36
- E-mail:
- brett.christophers@ibf.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Trädgårdsgatan 18
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I'm a geographer interested in various aspects of Western capitalism, both today and historically. Based at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, I have particular interests in urban and housing issues, although I continue to do research more widely.
My recent publications include two books published by Verso, The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (2018) and Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? (2020).
Biography
I have worked at Uppsala University since 2008.
Previously, I studied at Oxford University (BA, 1993), the University of British Columbia (MA, 1995) and the University of Auckland (PhD, 2008).
Publications
Selection of publications
- Games and prizes in the economic (and geographical?) performance of markets (2012)
- Anaemic geographies of financialisation (2012)
- Strains of myopia (2011)
- Revisiting the Urbanization of Capital (2011)
- Follow the thing (2011)
- Credit, where credit's due (2011)
- Making finance productive (2011)
- Television and geography (2010)
- On voodoo economics (2010)
- Geographical knowledges and neoliberal tensions (2010)
- Uneven development (2009)
- Envisioning media power (2009)
- Complexity, finance, and progress in human geography (2009)
- The BBC, the creative class, and neoliberal urbanism in the north of England (2008)
- Television's power relations in the transition to digital (2008)
Recent publications
- Asset manager capitalism (2024)
- How and Why US Single-Family Housing Became an Investor Asset Class (2023)
- The rentierization of the United Kingdom economy (2023)
- Our Lives in Their Portfolios (2023)
- David Harvey (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Asset manager capitalism (2024)
- How and Why US Single-Family Housing Became an Investor Asset Class (2023)
- The rentierization of the United Kingdom economy (2023)
- The Role of the State in the Transfer of Value from Main Street to Wall Street (2022)
- Rentiers, everywhere (2022)
- Fossilised Capital (2022)
- Mind the rent gap (2022)
- Taking Renewables to Market (2022)
- A tale of two inequalities (2021)
- The End of Carbon Capitalism (as We Knew It) (2021)
- Class, Assets and Work in Rentier Capitalism (2021)
- What is rent? (2020)
- Stretching scales? (2020)
- Book review symposium: New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (2020)
- The problem of rent (2019)
- The allusive market (2019)
- Putting financialisation in its financial context (2019)
- Environmental Beta or How Institutional Investors Think about Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Risk (2019)
- Intersections of inequality in homeownership in Sweden (2019)
- Remaking Mortgage Markets by Remaking Mortgages (2018)
- Intergenerational Inequality? (2018)
- Risking value theory in the political economy of finance and nature (2018)
- Financialisation as Monopoly Profit (2018)
- Risk capital: (2018)
- Introduction (2018)
- The State and Financialization of Public Land in the United Kingdom (2017)
- The performativity of the yield curve (2017)
- Seeing financialization? (2017)
- Climate Change and Financial Instability (2017)
- Book review: Rachel Weber 2015: From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2016)
- Thinking around, through and beyond The Great Leveler (2016)
- Neoliberalizing Keynes? (2016)
- For real (2016)
- Geographies of finance III (2016)
- Resisting devaluation (2016)
- Value At Risk In The Suburbs (2016)
- On arbitration, arbitrage and arbitrariness in financial markets and their governance (2015)
- Banking Spatially on the Future (2015)
- Value models (2015)
- Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away (2015)
- Value models: Finance, risk,and political economy (2015)
- The limits to financialization (2015)
- From financialization to finance (2015)
- Constructing and deconstructing markets: making space for capital (2015)
- Against (the idea of) financial markets (2015)
- Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away (2015)
- The Law's Markets (2015)
- Geographies of finance II (2015)
- Centring Housing in Political Economy (2014)
- The Housing Question under Capitalist Political Economies (2014)
- The territorial fix (2014)
- Geographies of finance I (2014)
- Is finance productive (and other important questions)? (2014)
- From Marx to market and back again (2014)
- Review of Sovereign Wealth Funds (2014)
- Is finance productive (and other important questions)? (2014)
- The inherent challenges of human geography (2014)
- Competition, Law, and the Power of (Imagined) Geography (2014)
- On the Performativity of Pill Pricing (2014)
- Sovereign Wealth Funds (2014)
- Wild Dragons in the City (2014)
- Book review symposium (2014)
- Banking and competition in exceptional times (2013)
- Intervention - Mad World? (2013)
- Book Review Symposium (2013)
- A monstrous hybrid (2013)
- Games and prizes in the economic (and geographical?) performance of markets (2012)
- Anaemic geographies of financialisation (2012)
- Strains of myopia (2011)
- Revisiting the Urbanization of Capital (2011)
- Follow the thing (2011)
- Credit, where credit's due (2011)
- Making finance productive (2011)
- On voodoo economics (2010)
- Geographical knowledges and neoliberal tensions (2010)
- Complexity, finance, and progress in human geography (2009)
- The BBC, the creative class, and neoliberal urbanism in the north of England (2008)
- Television's power relations in the transition to digital (2008)
- Media geography's dualities (2007)
- Underpopulation, television economies, and the power of the geographical imagination (2007)
- Enframing creativity (2007)
- Ships in the night (2007)
Books
- Our Lives in Their Portfolios (2023)
- David Harvey (2022)
- Rentier Capitalism (2020)
- Economic Geography (2018)
- The New Enclosure (2018)
- Money and Finance after the Crisis (2017)
- The Great Leveler (2016)
- Banking Across Boundaries (2013)
- Envisioning media power (2009)
Chapters
- Seeing (2019)
- Money and Finance after the Crisis (2017)
- Petals not thorns (2016)
- Petals not thorns (2016)
- Cultural Industries and the (Geographical) Political Economy of the Media (2015)
- Financial crises (2015)
- Cultural Industries and the (Geographical) Political Economy of the Media (2015)
- Financial crises (2015)
- Spaces of Media Capital (2014)
- Television and geography (2010)
- Uneven development (2009)
