Urban Warfare: housing under the empire of finance: Event March 25th 2019

On Monday Professor Raquel Rolnik will present key arguments from her latest book ‘Urban Warfare: housing under the empire of finance’.

This book launch will discuss how our homes and neighbourhoods have become the “last subprime frontiers of capitalism”.

Raquel Rolnik’s new book explores how financialisation has colonised cities and housing systems around the world, provoking homelessness and dispossession despite its promise of homeownership for all. The book examines housing politics and policy from numerous national contexts including the UK, Kazakhstan, Chile, the USA and Brazil. Rolnik will offer a searing critique of the political economy of housing under neoliberalism and a poignant analysis of how it has decimated households across the globe, as well as an account of how residents and social movements are fighting back.

Monday 25 March, 6:30-8:00pm

PAN.G.01, Pankhurst House

Speaker: Professor Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo)

Discussants: Dr Glyn Robbins (Defend Council Housing), Dr David Madden (LSE)

Chair: Dr Suzi Hall (LSE)

 This event is open to all

See you there perhaps…..