Second International Workshop of the Planetary Financialization Research Project
February 5, 6, and 7, 2025.
Interdisciplinary workshop on planetary financialization, co-organized by Ludovic Halbert, researcher at the CNRS attached to the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS, Gustave Eiffel University), Lucia Shimbo, professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of São Paulo and 2024-2025 resident researcher at the IEA in Paris, and Ivana Socoloff, CONICET researcher affiliated with the Instituto de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC, University of Buenos Aires).
The concept of "global financialization," inspired by the 2010s debate on "global urbanization,
" highlights the key role of capitalist accumulation in the transformation of spaces, communities, and environments on a global scale, from agricultural land, forests, and mining sites to the urban areas they support.
The hypothesis of global financialization offers a conceptual platform for transcending current scientific fragmentation and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. With this in mind, the International Workshops
seek to engage critically with this concept. The goal is to work toward 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 limitations in a context of systemic social, environmental, and political crises.
The project brings together specialists eager to share their knowledge of the existing literature and to create a first comprehensive mapping of global financialization, 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 complete chapters proposed for the book, as well as its structure, with workshop discussions.
Event closed to the public.