Studies in financialization & assetization
A starter pack on people and journals that have thoroughly engaged with aspects of financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large. Tell me if you wanna be added.
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@econgeo.bsky.social
@kevinskerrett.bsky.social
Adjunct Professor, Director, Financialization Research Lab, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University | Pensions | Privatization
@financialization.bsky.social
A research unit based at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University (Ottawa) https://carleton.ca/financializationlab
@pauloga1907.bsky.social
Barcelona - CE Europa PhDing @ Bristol Abans UPF, EHESS, Dauphine i Mines Paris Tech Financialization, football and resistance Comida, Futbol y Deporte (no en este orden, aunque preferiblemente mezclado).
@gbronstering.bsky.social
PhD student @ LSE IRD / Politcal Economy, Index Investing, Sustainable Finance, North-South relations
@christianelliott.bsky.social
Asst. prof at the Penn State School of International Affairs. Writing/reading/thinking about sustainable finance, global governance, and climate politics. www.christianmorinelliott.com
@reisnadine.bsky.social
Geographer. Professor in Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de México working on peripheral capitalism and the financialization of water.
@andrealagna.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Information Systems and Fintech at The University of Manchester - He/Him - lagna.io
@sasemeeting.bsky.social
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), founded by Amitai Etzioni in 1989, is an international, interdisciplinary organization with members across 50 countries. *2025 Montreal Conference Deadlines are due earlier this year*
@econgeog.bsky.social
Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) of the American Association of Geographers.
@shuaibj.bsky.social
phding at UCL. studying digital financial(ised) inclusion in Nigeria | algorithmic governance | IPE
@raquelrolnik.bsky.social
Urbanista e professora da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP e coordenadora do LabCidade FAUUSP. 📷: Arte de Ottavia Pasta http://linktr.ee/RaquelRolnik
@fangcheng0819.bsky.social
Economic and financial geographer (for the fun), textual entropy tamer (for a living). Postdoc @VUB.
@aminsamman.bsky.social
Writing a book on financial nihilism. Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
@loicriom.bsky.social
Researcher interested in Music, Tech and Finance. https://cv.hal.science/loicriom
@taschn.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of #STS at Human-Centred Innovation @DTU 🇩🇰 Research Affiliate at InSIS @ox.ac.uk | @sydney.edu.au PhD | writing a book about #Food #Finance #Futures | also sharing thoughts and photos on 📚🌷
@mklaz.bsky.social
political ecologist, human geographer at the university of melbourne (https://shorturl.at/SG30C) forthcoming book (Aug 2025): Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (U Hawai'i Press)
@zeniakish.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication & Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech U. I study finance, food, agriculture, and now dirt. Associate Editor at Journal of Cultural Economy. Just getting started.
@danielkunze.bsky.social
junior researcher @sfb294 "Structural Change of Property" and @tuda.bsky.social | sociology, sts and finance | (he/him) | currently researching the assetization of rental housing
@drsarahhall.bsky.social
Professor @ Cambridge Uni, Deputy Director UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social. Economics,trade and politics of finance led development. Views my own.
@juliedlr.bsky.social
Economic geographer | Asst Prof at CSEAS, Kyoto University l energy transition, mining, finance
@fapaydin.bsky.social
Associate Prof. @IBEI | Political economy, industrial policy, finance and development | PI: Governing Private Debt www.pridebt.eu | Writing a book on Space policy for Verso Books 🚀 🛰 Views: my own fapaydin.weebly.com
@maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geography, University College Cork | Interested in urban and digital geographies | Currently thinking about real estate, finance, and resistance...
@giuliadalmaso.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow researching finance from a critical perspective. Financialisation in post-socialist contexts - China and Eastern Europe. Climate, Impact Finance, Longevity Finance.
@clairerhiannon.bsky.social
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Political economist, chronic unionist, ocean swimmer, failing but tenacious gardener
@vgalaz.bsky.social
🇸🇪 🇨🇱 🌎 Associate Prof Pol Sci Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University + Beijer Institute of Ecol Economics at Royal Swe Academy of Sciences. Politics, big money, nuclear risks and new tech in the Anthropocene.👨🏽💻ibland för Svenska Dagbladet Kultur.
@landstuff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UCSC. Author of: "Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush" (2020, Cornell University Press). Sociology of agriculture, land justice, agri-food tech, financialization.
@newjawnfades.bsky.social
Financial analyst working on pensions/retirement policy for a labor union. thisisfincap.substack.com
@williamcallison.bsky.social
Political theorist and Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Political ecology and the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
@janfichtner.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow SuFi Project @UniWH & @UvACorpnet | Global finance, age of passive investing, index providers, ESG, sustainable finance, greenwashing, decarbonization | www.jfichtner.net
@jennifer-clapp.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo. Global political economy of food and agriculture. Member of IPES-Food. https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/jclapp Author of Titans of Industrial Agriculture (MIT Press, 2025)
@jiegson.bsky.social
Human geographer researching on rental housing, regulation and financialization. Book review ed. at @housingtheory.bsky.social. Dept. of Urban studies, Malmö university & @iurmalmo.bsky.social https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=x-t1hugAAAAJ&hl=sv
@brentzkaup.bsky.social
Political ecologist studying finance, bugs, and infectious disease. Coauthor of the Pathogens of Finance (UC Press). The opinions expressed here are solely my own.
@ripejournal.bsky.social
Leading international journal dedicated to the systematic exploration of IPE from a plurality of perspectives.
@profmarkdavis.bsky.social
Economic Sociologist | Co-created Local Climate Bonds - raised +£12M for #netzero projects so far | Now researching social relations of retrofit | Deputy Head of School @sspatleeds.bsky.social | First-Gen | Views mine
@ebharrington.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words @washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian. All at brookeharrington.com
@thomayer.bsky.social
PhD researcher in political science @JKU Linz, currently partly funded by @FNA. I do research on the politics of pension reform, industrial relations and green transition, sustainable finance. I also play Badminton and like reading fiction
@alexcobham.bsky.social
Chief executive @TaxJusticeNet.bsky.social (he/him). New book: 'What do we know and what should we do about... Tax justice?' (SAGE Press): https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/what-do-we-know-and-what-should-we-do-about-tax-justice/book286416
@connorpchung.bsky.social
climate finance/policy stuff @ IEEFA | methane social science stuff @ Harvard Center for Hist and Econ | bad takes my own
@graceblakeley.substack.com
Read Vulture Capitalism ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/Grace.blakeley
@icruxen.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ QMUL | PhD, MIT | Co-Lead #DataAgainstFeminicide | Co-editor CLaSP Blog | political economy, development, (green) finance, water, data activism https://www.isadoracruxen.com/
@gpejournal.bsky.social
Editors in chief: Mònica Clua-Losada @monicaclua.bsky.social & Phoebe V Moore @phoebemoore https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/global-political-economy
@jcultecon.bsky.social
JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
@provokedeconomy.bsky.social
Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa https://provokedeconomy.net/
@cjres.bsky.social
International multi-disciplinary journal publishing spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change
@econsociology.bsky.social
The global community of academics, practitioners, and activists interested in Economic #Sociology and Political Economy -- led by Dr. Oleg Komlik https://economicsociology.org/about/
@econsocjournal.bsky.social
Est. 1972. Social science journal: economic relations & governance, progressive politics, life sciences & more. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/reso20
@oddletters.bsky.social
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they
@cgastrow.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Interested in African cities, socialist Atlantic histories, architecture and urban financialization. Book: The Aesthetics of Belonging: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469682181/the-aesthetics-of-belonging/
@dasilvapp.bsky.social
Lecturer at University of Exeter | Political Economy | Latin American Politics https://dasilvapp.github.io/
@abotebuno.bsky.social
Researching the political economy of money and finance in Ghana
@ftm.nl
Follow the Money is een platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek met een glashelder doel: waarheidsvinding in dienst van de samenleving. https://ftm.nl
@franziscool.bsky.social
@mazzucatom.bsky.social
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose www.marianamazzucato.com
@bspiesbutcher.bsky.social
Political economist and sociologist @mqsociology.bsky.social Public finance, social policy, climate and inequality. Co-Director, Australian Basic Income Lab @ausbasicincome.bsky.social
@kaikodden.bsky.social
Political economist and attempts at internationalism l Prof @Bard College Berlin. Between Cologne and Berlin.
@stffhaag.bsky.social
Here for procrastination// political economy, climate finance, Africa, energy transition, race and colonialism @ Uni Hamburg
@anninak.bsky.social
Professor of Global Economics (University of Leeds, UK) macro-finance in the Global South, central banking, exchange rates, and anything development finance; mixed-methods
@redjen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer UWE Bristol; macro, finance (especially pensions) and also philosophy. Previously dabbled in politics, policy, public affairs
@annpettifor.bsky.social
I write about the global financial system & its impact on the ecosystem. Books: The Production of Money, The Case for The GND (2018), The Coming First World Debt Crisis (2006). My newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
@stefeich.bsky.social
Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023) https://stefaneich.com/
@clemfon.bsky.social
Professor of Political Economy at UcLouvain Central banking & infrastructural finance geek. Also EU & French politics, political economy & social sciences at large. Dr Miette bonus: #recordoftheweek & #tuneoftheweek
@piroskadora.bsky.social
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Associate Prof at the International Relations Department, Central European University, Vienna
@jacobbolton.bsky.social
geography PhD at LSE ~ climate adaptation, shipping, the arctic ~ liquidtime.substack.com
@toteraltermann.bsky.social
Property, biology & stuff. All opinions someone else's. Out now: AT THE END OF PROPERTY @BrisUniPress.bsky.social https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/at-the-end-of-property
@eloralee.bsky.social
Housing, City Planning. Views are my own. Atlanta via Boston + Apia. 🇼🇸🇦🇸 she / her / ia
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Editorial Collective advancing #LeftMMT, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
@geosaura.bsky.social
Prof. University of Barcelona | Politics of Education, Financialization, Digital Capitalism, STS
@clmgrhm.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Agrarian studies, politics, history.
@drdonoghue.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD Works at the intersection of politics, sociology, political economy, via social/public policy. Into ideas. Ireland, UK & Europe #SocialCitizenship #Resilience #WelfareState #Ideology #Discourse #Cohesion
@beki.bsky.social
Critical urban and economic geographer. Development, finance, climate risk, disaster governance, and political economy. ☕️✨ bekimcelvain.com 📍SF | MX | UK
@alasdairking.bsky.social
Reader in Film @qmul.ac.uk Tracking finance capital and cybernetics across contemporary film and post-cinematic art. New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
@lenarethel.bsky.social
University of Warwick | International Political Economy | global finance | Southeast Asia | Islamic finance
@ppesydney.bsky.social
ppesydney.net. Political economic research, commentary and events. Blog and book series. Co-editors: @morton.bsky.social and @garethbryant.bsky.social
@eatingpolitics.bsky.social
I think about food. IPE/GPE Teaching with ungrading practices. https://www.mun.ca/political-science/people/sarah-martin/
@kpatricio.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @lawatleeds.bsky.social • External Examiner @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social • JIEL Editorial Board member • SIEL-Hart and John Jackson Prizes • LPE, global governance and the law of money, finance and sovereign debt
@johannespetry.bsky.social
Political Economist | PI StateCapFinance project at Goethe University Frankfurt | https://www.johannespetry.com/
@mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. at UCPH, literary critic at Politiken, author of Going Nowhere, Slow & Klodens fald & Slutspil & (soon) The Birth of the Financial Thriller & (later, at one point) The Climate Endgame Mail: mikkelfrantzen@hum.ku.dk
@mkonings.bsky.social
Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
@parrasaiani.bsky.social
Full Prof. @UniGenova Interested in social research history & methodology, social indicators, factual and political knowledge, fraud in science, circulation of knowledge.
@alirizataskale.bsky.social
https://alirizataskale.com Marie Curie Fellow at Roskilde University @distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
@seyfert.bsky.social
Professor of sociology with a focus on sociological theory, @uni-kiel.de, Germany Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory https://www.seyfert.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970 https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
@pmbigger.bsky.social
Research Director @cplusc.bsky.social. Political economy in the climate+ecological crisis. Anti fascist always. Terrible taste in music. climateandcommunity.org // https://bit.ly/pb_pubs
@jsizek.bsky.social
Environmental historian and legal geographer of California desert's landownership checkerboards, Native American land trusts, groundwater, dirt bikes, and vacation homes. Also projects on the Northwest Forest Plan and cervid Chronic Wasting Disease.
@ingridhk.bsky.social
Political economy, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
@paullangley.bsky.social
Professor of Economic Geography, Durham, UK. Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social Finance, money, FinTech, and more. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
@karenpylai.bsky.social
associate professor of economic geography | deputy editor-in-chief @financeandspace.bsky.social | money & finance | fintech | data centres | financial centres | Asia
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
Political Economist at Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University | Sustainable Finance | Financialization | Politics of Investment | Pensions | http://nataschavanderzwan.com
@dancohen.bsky.social
Critical urban and economic geographer studying the marketization of education and other social institutions (he/him). https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=S265d9kAAAAJ&hl=en
@danielagabor.bsky.social