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Creating elite encounters: The ‘campaign’ as approach for interviewing corporate elites 创造精英邂逅：将 "运动 "作为采访企业精英的方法

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241261701

Tiago Teixeira, Gavin Bridge

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An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain 对 "停滞国家 "保持谨慎？后增长时代英国的金融服务政策发展

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-06-15 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241258872

Andrew Leyshon

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The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century 作为做市商的国家：21 世纪巴西证券化的兴起（和衰落

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241258038

Marlon Altavini de Abreu, Jeroen Johannes Klink, M. Aalbers

{"title":"The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century","authors":"Marlon Altavini de Abreu, Jeroen Johannes Klink, M. Aalbers","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241258038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241258038","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses housing securitization in Brazil during 2007–2020 and provides three contributions to debates on the relations between the state and financialization in emerging markets. First, we highlight that the Brazilian state has gone far beyond the common role of market enabling, characterized by regulatory rollout and fiscal incentives. Instead, by acting as a market maker on the demand and supply side, it has provided the required liquidity and depth for the emerging segment of residential securitization. Unlike the financial disintermediation through private market makers such as brokerage houses and individual traders that provide risk-reduction, Brazilian securitization has unfolded through the issuance and acquisition of securities by the state’s housing bank and its associated social housing fund. Second, unlike the speculative Minsky type of booms and busts that characterize privately-driven markets, state market making generates a trajectory that is associated with the capacity of governments to roll-out markets for residential securitization. While the social-developmental stance of the Lula and Dilma administrations have boosted securitization, the market-oriented austerity politics of the Temer and Bolsonaro administrations have quickly dried up secondary markets. Finally, while securitization was initially a means to the end of social housing, it seems increasingly the other way around. More specifically, considering that thick and consolidated secondary markets ultimately depend on the quality and stability of the underlying loans and income streams that originate operations, stricter risk reduction and guarantees clauses have gradually penetrated the social housing segment and threaten to undermine the right to secure tenure.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141342425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘Risk on steroids’: Investing in the hydrogen economy 类固醇风险"：投资氢经济

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241255225

Oliver Bugge Hunt, J. P. Tilsted

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The marketization of a selective school transition in Switzerland 瑞士择校过渡的市场化

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241256844

Itta Bauer, Sara Landolt

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The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier 地主国家走向海外：挪威 "能源之国 "重塑为全球租借国

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241251475

Y. Heiret

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What does capital consume? Racial capitalism and the social reproduction of surplus people 资本消费什么？种族资本主义与剩余人口的社会再生产

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241251671

Rachel Goffe, Nikki Luke

{"title":"What does capital consume? Racial capitalism and the social reproduction of surplus people","authors":"Rachel Goffe, Nikki Luke","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241251671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241251671","url":null,"abstract":"This intervention considers uneven development and social reproduction within racial capitalism. Social reproduction refers to the range of practices that form the conditions of possibility for the life of capital, as well as life and death within racial capitalism. This spans a range of institutions and networks within households, communities, states and across national borders as well as the labour practices, relations and organization that reproduce racial capitalism. Here, we examine the extraction of time, taking up theorizations across carceral geographies, postcolonial theory and Caribbean studies to demonstrate how coercive relations of social reproduction contribute to uneven development. In particular, we look at the role of the state in racial capital’s capture of reproductive activities across our work on electric utilities in Atlanta, Georgia and extralegal land tenure on Jamaica’s north coast. In bringing these distinct sites into conversation, we re-affirm the need to study uneven development by understanding how the circulation and accumulation of capital is imbricated with the production of hierarchies of all kinds of difference. We show how a conjunctural countertopography can reveal how state practices advance accumulation under conditions of widespread surplus lives, as capital wagers on captive life and premature death.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140981056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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In the frontier zone of market transition: Economic possibilities across the market/non-market divide 市场转型的前沿地带：跨越市场与非市场鸿沟的经济可能性

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241249859

Junxi Qian, Yun Ma, Xueqiong Tang

{"title":"In the frontier zone of market transition: Economic possibilities across the market/non-market divide","authors":"Junxi Qian, Yun Ma, Xueqiong Tang","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241249859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241249859","url":null,"abstract":"This paper engages with two important approaches theorising the co-existence and even close entanglement between the market and non-market to rethink the making of actually existing market economies. The first, that is, the diverse/community economies approach, underscores alternative relations and ethics to capitalism but often views community economies as external to market processes. A second approach on market frontiers rejects the idea of the non-market domain as a Utopian space but re-imagines it as a constituent part within capitalism, while powerful actors manage and utilise non-market differences to configure particular regimes of accumulation. However, it says relatively little about how the market/non-market divide is navigated and appropriated to suit the wellbeing of grassroots people and communities. This paper calls for a dialogue between the two approaches and argues that community economies provide important ‘background conditions of possibility’ for ordinary people to advance their needs, interests, and wellbeing by negotiating or traversing the market/non-market divide. Our empirical study investigates recent socioeconomic transformations in two villages, Lolong and Nyiru, located within the Potatso National Park, Yunnan Province, China. In both villages, local people keep alive communal norms of reciprocity and mutual support. The persistence of the non-marketised community economies is partly attributed to a state-capital coalition that outlaws grassroots participation in local tourism economy. Subsequently, villagers devise a number of tactics to penetrate the market realm and meet emerging lifestyle and consumer needs. Three of such tactics are discussed in this study.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140982637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Winners of the Ashby Prizes 阿什比奖获奖者

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241252792

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‘Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy’ 移民、移民工人和打工经济

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241250168

Srujana Katta, Fabian Ferrari, Niels van Doorn, Mark Graham

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