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978-1-78348-332-7 • Hardback • October 2016 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
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Dallas Rogers is Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Western Sydney. His projects investigate the relationships between globalising urban space, infrastructure, and housing poverty and wealth. He has appeared in domestic and international media, participated in a parliamentary briefing, is regularly invited to speak at academic and professional forums and publishes on urban and housing issues in academic and industry journals. Personal webpage: https://dallasrogers.live
Acknowledgements / 1. Global Real Estate Semblances / 2. Organising Technics, Mediating Technologies and Discursive Code / 3. Technics of Land I / 4. Technics of Land II / 5. Technologies of Real Estate I / 6. Technologies of Real Estate II / 7. New Discursive Code / 8. Global Real Estate Assemblages / Index
The globalisation of real estate is impacting many cities in the world. Whilst many scholars have written two-dimensional descriptive studies of global real estate trends, Dallas Rogers has produced a riveting analysis of the historical forces in global real estate investment. His book provides a rich context for analysing the property markets of the world’s most important cities.— Peter Phibbs, Professor, University of Sydney
The globalisation of real estate has been a topic where investigative journalists and populist authors have out-paced academic scholars. One of the objectives of this timely and innovative volume by Dallas Rogers is to re-frame current property debates in settler societies. The book both deepens and also reconfigures our understanding of land as commodity through a post-structural exegesis of property episodes across time and space.— David Ley, Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Ingenious. With forensic analytical acuity, Dallas Rogers connects seemingly disparate processes and events to reveal the organizing logics that have always driven the geopolitical transfer of land, bodies, labour and capital. Taking us from Indigenous creation stories, to communism in China, Westphalian sovereignty, the invention of title deeds, and the rise of populist wealth-creation manuals Rogers brings a distinctive perspective to studies of geopolitics, real estate and settler-colonialism alike. This is a book that will challenge these heretofore separate debates into a more profound and transformative dialogue with one another.— Libby Porter, Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia
This is an extremely ambitious work, demonstrating substantial scholarship and original research.— Housing Studies
In the face of increasingly sensationalist discourses surrounding foreign real estate investments, this book is a welcomed contribution that contextualizes present developments while offering an incisive history of the politics of real estate.
— Journal of Housing and the Built Environment