Brett Christophers
Professor at Department of Human Geography
- 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 in human geography, especially residential and urban geography at Institute for Housing and Urban Research
- 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 human geographer based at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. Research-wise, I tend to hop around: things I have written about range from climate change and the energy transition to British colonial history. In recent years much of my focus has been on changing patterns of ownership of socially-significant assets like housing, land and infrastructure, and especially the growing role of asset managers and other major investment institutions.
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)
- Author response (2024)
- Response (2023)
- How and Why US Single-Family Housing Became an Investor Asset Class (2023)
- Our Lives in Their Portfolios (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Asset manager capitalism (2024)
- Author response (2024)
- Response (2023)
- 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)
