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Tourism-Led Rentier Capitalism: Extracting Rent and Value from Tourism Property Investment KU Leuven
A highly heterogenous group of actors develops, owns, manages, and purchases tourism property around the globe. In this paper, we discuss the rise of “tourism-led rentier capitalism”—which is a particular fraction of capital—and its variegated dimensions. Although tourism property investors do not operate as a monolithic bloc or a socio-economic class, they share similar interests and collectively reshape tourism destinations by extracting ...
Land financialisation, planning informalisation and gentrification as statecraft in Antwerp KU Leuven
The financialization of real estate KU Leuven
The financialization of real estate KU Leuven
The Mobilisation of Land as a Financial Asset: The Politics of Urban Rent Production in Post-Industrial Manchester and Antwerp KU Leuven
The mobilisation of land as a financial asset has become a defining feature of sociospatial restructuring in post-industrial European cities. Returning to the neglected literature on land rent, I argue that fundamental contradictions arise from treating land as capital which shape contemporary urban processes in important ways. I explore how these contradictions unfold by analysing the active political role of rentiers in urban restructuring as ...