IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/intjhp/v20y2020i2p184-202.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Conceptualising ‘financialisation’: governance, organisational behaviour and social interaction in UK housing

Author

Listed:
  • Keith Jacobs
  • Tony Manzi

Abstract

This paper interrogates the concept of financialisation and assesses its utility for housing scholarship. It begins by noting the elasticity of the concept and considers some of the criticisms made against its deployment. The main body of the paper, using the UK as an example, puts forward suggestions to operationalise the concept across three scales: structural (to analyse the governance of housing); institutional (to explain formal and informal processes, including the behaviour of housing organisations) and individual (to understand the ways that financialisation is imposed but also resisted within social settings). Amongst the arguments presented is that the concept has most utility for researchers when applied historically, to make explicit how the variegated, situational and adaptive practices that are now in place have their origins in earlier stages of capitalist development. The paper concludes by suggesting that financialisation is most productive when applied alongside, rather than in place of concepts such as neoliberalism and commodification.

Suggested Citation

  • Keith Jacobs & Tony Manzi, 2020. "Conceptualising ‘financialisation’: governance, organisational behaviour and social interaction in UK housing," International Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 184-202, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:184-202
    DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540737
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540737
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540737?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. José-Francisco Vergara-Perucich, 2022. "Is There Financialization of Housing Prices? Empirical Evidence from Santiago de Chile," Economies, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-14, May.
    2. Załęczna Magdalena & Antczak-Stępniak Agata, 2022. "“Lex Developer” in Practice - The Scale of Application in the Largest Polish Cities," Real Estate Management and Valuation, Sciendo, vol. 30(3), pages 86-97, September.
    3. Ivan Turok & Andreas Scheba & Justin Visagie, 2022. "Can social housing help to integrate divided cities? [Segregation and the urban rich; enclaves, networks and mobilities]," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 15(1), pages 93-116.
    4. Shabir Hussain Khahro & Aftab Hameed Memon & Nafees Ahmed Memon & Zubair Ahmed Memon & Rawal Naresh, 2023. "Influence of Social and Economic Factors on Construction Project Performance in Pakistan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-22, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:184-202. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/REUJ20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.