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Research Seminar – The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights
11 November, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Research Seminar
Topic:
The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights
Speaker:
Dr. Dallas Rogers
Urban Studies Lecturer
School of Social Science and Psychology
Western Sydney University
Schedule:
Date: 11 November 2016 (Friday)
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Room 803, 8/F, Knowles Building, HKU
Abstract:
Dallas Rogers discusses his new book that develops a historical analysis of the geopolitics of real estate with settler-colonialism on the one side and the rise of über-wealthy foreign real estate investors on the other. Individual foreign investment in Western nation states is a long-standing geopolitical issue. The expansion of the middle class in BRICS and Asian countries, and their increased activity in Western real estate markets as foreign investors, have introduced new and revived some existing cultural and geopolitical sensitivities. Dallas develops a new history of foreign real estate investment by mapping the movement of human and financial capital over more than four centuries. He argues the reconfiguration of Asian geopolitical power has ruptured the conceptual landscape for understanding international land and real estate relations. Drawing on assemblage theories (Latour, Deleuze and Guattari), assemblage analytical tactics (Sassen and Ong) and discursive media theories (Kittler and Foucault) he presents a series of vignettes about land and real estate ‘crisis’. He shows how foreign land claimers and global real estate professionals colonise, subvert and act beyond the governance structures of settler-societies to facilitate new types of capital circulation and accumulation around the world.
About the Speaker:
Dr Dallas Rogers is a research member of the Institute for Culture and Society and lectures into the Urban Research Program at Western Sydney University. He has published two books: a monograph on The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital and Rights (2016 Rowman & Littlefield International); and the edited volume Housing In 21st Century Australia: People, Practices And Policies (2015 Ashgate). He investigates the relationships between globalising urban space, discourse and technology networks, and housing poverty and wealth. He has undertaken a critical analysis of Australian urbanism through fine-grained empirical research with low-income urban citizenries as well as super-rich transnational property investors and their agents. He has secured nationally competitive grants, and completed research projects for local and state government and the private and non-government sectors. He is a regular commentator on urban and housing policy with an interest in using digital media techniques to communicate research findings to non-academic audiences. Dallas produces a national radio and podcast show on contemporary urban issues.
Personal website: https://dallasrogers.live/
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