Reposted by @valspacepower.bsky.socialRafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Make sure to follow @valspacepower.bsky.social for future updates, and also check out the rest of the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social summer program! 154
Reposted by @valspacepower.bsky.socialRafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer! 186
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 26/06/2025And Michaela Hamilton, University of Sussex. Her research explores monetary policy in a fascinating paper that examines calculative practices in the mortgage markets as an 'anchor' for statecraft 000
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Siyue Wang, City University of Hong Kong, who discussed the curation of value through the strategic deployment of contemporary art as a means to boost the value of real estate 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Logging in again to make sure we give shout-outs to two more paper presenters for whom we unfortunately didn't get pics! 100
Reposted by @valspacepower.bsky.socialEmanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation! 084
Reposted by @valspacepower.bsky.socialProf Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏 183
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025That's a wrap for today after two days of great papers by keynotes and early career researchers. Watch this space, and follow @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social for their summer programme over the coming two weeks! 020
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025And to round off our workshop, our own Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social presented her research on real estate wealth chains in Belgium and Portugal 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Hannah Sender also presented her research on financial assets in the context of domicide through Israeli violence in Lebanon 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025In our other breakout session, we had Andreas Kanaris Miyashiro on valuation and financial fragility 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This paper critically draws on Katharina Pistor's work in exploring the multiple legal and customary property forms that shape rights to assets at different scales 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Gustav Kalm presents his paper, 'Who owns the Simandou Mountain, and to what effect?', exploring the legal infrastructures that underpin the leverage of mining rights in Guinea 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Up next we have Ana Ligia Magalhães, carrying on the infrastructural theme through an analysis of subordinate financialisation and PPP risk management in Brazil 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025In our final afternoon breakout session, Zhengli Huang from @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social presents her research on contested values within global infrastructure corridors 111
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025And Emanuele Sciuva from the Politecnico di Torino discussing his paper 'Siliconizing Lisbon: Arbitrage and Value Extraction in the Making of a Nomadland' 110
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025From yesterday we also had the University of Sheffield's Niall Docherty discussing user habits and digital platforms 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Drawing on Alami and Dixon's critical reading of state capitalism literature, Sarah Hall argues for the need to explore how state action and finance shape one another in different domains 110
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025After lunch, Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social in our final plenary is arguing for the need to take borders seriously as a missing analytical category in the spatialisation of finance 110
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Some fascinating links between interlegality and the role of law being drawn across all four papers in the panel discussion 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Some fascinating links between interlegality and the role of law being drawn across all four papers in the panel discussion 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Finally for this morning's session we have Sara Bencekovic from Luxembourg's Fincity project discussing anthropological theories of value as a site of conflict 210
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025For instance, measurements used to calculate 'green' bonds can detach projects from their context and purpose 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Claire Debucquois presenting her paper on 'green slicing' the Amazon, exploring how legal and accounting rules elevate proxy measures for sustainability that obscure other forms of accountability 100
Reposted by @valspacepower.bsky.socialRafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Amazing opening keynote yesterday by Mary Robertson at our 2-day Valuation, Space and Power workshop! 032
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Now Maria Cariola Eriksson is discussing how the legal 'fixing' of value is co-constitutuve with processes of extraction, using the example of green transitions in Chile 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025In our first paper session, Annika Reinke is presenting her research on climate adaptation and disaster risk management 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Valbona tracing the origins of international investment law to control over what was once the most important asset, land, in encounters between the 'west' and colonial 'others' 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Starting our second day with an opening talk by Valbona Muzaka of Uppsala University on how assets are made through the 'alchemy' of international investment law 161
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025That's a wrap for today. We'll be back for the second day tomorrow to hear from Valbona Muzaka of Uppsala University on public policy and the asset form 010
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025To conclude our first day of the workshop we have Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social arguing for an analysis of the firm as simultaneously a legal and a financial reporting infrastructure 110
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025In the afternoon breakout sessions, Aurora Echevarria is talking about ad hoc, path dependent forms of measuring property value 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Information asymmetries central in their view to structuring the relationships between clients, suppliers and regulators, with implications for how wealth flows through tax havens 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Afternoon sessions getting underway with Len Seabrooke and Duncan Wigan presenting as a double act on global wealth chains 130
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Meanwhile in the main hall we have Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social discussing venture capital and housing as part of the tech-finance nexus 010
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Ka Chi Yip presenting his PhD research on how property market valuation is understood by leaseholders in Hong Kong 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Maedhbh Nic Lochlain @maedhbhlikedave discussing how speculation is discursively packaged by the investment industry, and its contribution to the de- and re-valuation of urban space 100
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Now in the breakout sessions, with Frances Brill talking through the politics of ESG as understood by investors 120
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Key argument is that a precise theorisation of rent allows us to grasp the limits of value creation in the built environment, as shown for example in 2008 000
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Mary Robertson as our first keynote, arguing for the need to critically develop Marxist categories of rent when analysing the built environment 110
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social kicking us off by explaining how our workshop came about through a shared interest in value, calculation, critical accounting and economic geography 121
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025For more on our collective research project, we also have a substack 👀 valspacepower.substack.com/p/valuation-...valspacepower.substack.comValuation, Space & PowerA new research agenda 021
valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Up bright and early for the first Valuation, Space and Power workshop, bringing together early career researchers and leading scholars in sunny Sheffield over the next two days 160
