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Urban geographies of fear in MartÃn Solares and Pedro de Isla Vrije Universiteit Brussel
L’essor de la littérature du nord du Mexique ne cesse de se renforcer depuis la fin du XXe siècle. Longtemps, la production littéraire mexicaine a été le privilège des écrivains liés à la ville de Mexico. Pour accéder à la sphère littéraire, les auteurs du Nord ont cherché de nouvelles manières de s’approprier l’espace intellectuel afin de rendre compte non seulement de l’espace rural – évoqué à maintes reprises –, mais aussi de l’espace urbain ...
Financial geography I: Geographies of tax KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2017. Taxation in general and tax evasion in particular are inherently geographical in nature, but only a small number of geographers have focused on them. In this progress report I present geographers’ research on offshore financial centres alongside the work of researchers from other disciplines to present an overview of what we know about the geographies of tax evasion and avoidance. It is argued that not only much regulatory ...
Through thick and thin: Young people's affective geographies in Brussels' public space Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Cultural patronage has since long been a domain where urban elites can showcase a sense of philanthropy. The paper develops a heuristic that starts from cultural patronage activities in order to trace urban elite households and their professional and residential characteristics. The heuristic is deployed in Brussels, Belgium, where we use cultural patronage listings from five key ...
Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2018. Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate (offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand how the built environment – chunky and spatially fixed – has been turned into a (quasi-)financial asset – ‘unitized’ and liquid – through a range of regulatory and socio-technical changes and constructions. The financialization of real estate is ...
Geographies of Brexit and its aftermath: voting in England at the 2016 referendum and the 2017 general election KU Leuven
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Much has been written since the 2016 Brexit referendum regarding the divides within British society that the vote illustrated–including geographical divides–and their influence on the outcome of the 2017 general election. Focusing on England, this paper explores the extent and significance of those geographical divides at the 2016 referendum, at a variety of spatial ...
Geographies of transportation in the twenty-first century Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Geographies of Finance in a Globalizing World. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Geographies of mortgage markets KU Leuven
homeowners depend on them, because they fuel the economy both directly and indirectly and because they serve an ideological purpose in the neoliberal age. The ‘regulated deregulation’ of mortgage markets is not just a goal in itself, but also a means to further the neoliberal agenda of private property, firms and growing profits. This chapter discusses the geographies of mortgage markets. The patterns and structures of mortgage lending reflect ...