Second International Workshop: Planetary Financialisation Research Project

Workshop organized by Ludovic Halbert, CNRS researcher at Labora-
toire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), Université Gustave Eiffel,
Lucia Shimbo, Professor of Urban Studies and Architecture at the Uni-
versity of São Paulo and 2024-2025 Paris IAS Fellow, and Ivana Socoloff,
CONICET researcher at Instituto de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC),
Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Event closed to the public.

Presentation

The concept of "planetary financialisation", inspired by the 2010s debate on "planetary urbanisation", highlights the key role of capitalist accumulation in the transformation of spaces, communities and environments on a global scale, from farmland, forests and mining sites to the urban areas they support.

The planetary financialisation hypothesis offers a conceptual platform for transcending the current scientific fragmentation and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. With this in mind, the International Workshops seek to engage critically with this concept. The aim is to work towards a refined definition of this notion and to anchor it in multiple theoretical traditions (Marxist, feminist, political ecology, etc.) by developing appropriate methodologies to study its possibilities and limits, in a context of systemic social, environmental and political crises.

The project brings together specialists wishing to share their knowledge of the existing literature and to create the first comprehensive mapping of planetary financialisation, its geographical, social and ecological variations, its actors, instruments and policies in the North and South.

This series of international scientific events will culminate in the publication of the book Financialization and Space. Following the first workshop in May 2024, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this second workshop will focus on the presentation of the full chapters proposed for the book, as well as its structuring, with workshop discussions.