Hi all,
Housing has always been entangled with finance in market-based societies. The proliferation of owner-occupation hinges on financial instruments extending interest-bearing credit to
individuals and corporations. The deregulation of Anglo-US credit and the ensuing global financial crisis revealed housing as a contingent production of domestic economies, financial policy and global credit. With the ascendancy of finance over other economic
sectors (such as retail and production), market-based societies have arguably entered a new phase of financialisation. Within housing research, it has inspired (at least) four new research themes.
Recognising the central role of market-based housing in Australia, and the uneven ways in which financial instruments, policies and capital shape (and are shaped by) local economies and cultures of housing, we are seeking 300 word abstracts that address one (or more) of the themes set out above.
Please email abstracts to geography-admin@uow.edu.au by December 4th 2017, and feel free to get in touch with myself or Nicole (ncook@uow.edu.au) if you have any questions or ideas.
Cheers, Charlie
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Charles Gillon | PhD Candidate
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research
School of Geography and Sustainable Communities
University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
E cwg317@uowmail.edu.au | Tw @CharlieGillon
University of Wollongong CRICOS: 00102E
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