Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy,
state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational …

In this review, we bridge recent studies on the political economy of urban and rural real
property ownership, focusing on the US. While there are many parallels and interlinkages …

The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work of ending colonialism run
square through questions of land. The classical agrarian question has taken on new forms …

This article contributes to debates within the financialization literature by examining the rise
of monopolies in the US'rental housing market. Drawing on a dataset of multifamily real …

This paper studies how farmland transfers (renting) have affected rural micro-financial
structure in China. China has implemented the farmland titling policy since 2009 that …

In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale
land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and …

Critics charge that agriculture has reached an unsustainable level of consolidation and
expropriation, as exemplified by the supply-chain breakdown of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Studies and debates on the issue of land grabs have generated multiple terms and concepts
that are used loosely and interchangeably, such as large-scale land acquisitions, land grab …

This article contributes to contemporary debates within the financialization and assetization
literatures by examining the sale of tax credits in US property markets over the last twenty …

There is ample evidence of the financialisation of housing as it is purchased by institutional
investors and their financial intermediaries. In urban and housing studies, many accounts …