Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

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In his contribution to our blog, @alexdobeson.bsky.social claims that market regulation alone will not suffice to deal with land and housing crises, we also need a different valuation of land itself by considering social and environmental factors. sfb294-eigentum.de/de/blog/maki...

Screenshot vom Blog-Artikel "Making sense of land values" von Alexander Dobeson vom 16. März 2026. Do you ever think about what your home is worth? reads a sign outside a real estate office in northern Copenhagen, where I live. It continues: Join us for our Valuation Weekend and get a free, thorough and non-binding sales valuation from an agent who is not so realtor like.

Welche politischen Implikationen ergeben sich aus der Art, wie Land bewertet wird? In seinem Blog-Eintrag lenkt @alexdobeson.bsky.social den Blick auf moralische, soziale und ökologische Werte, die über den rein wirtschaftlichen Wert hinaus eine Rolle spielen. sfb294-eigentum.de/de/blog/maki...

Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling the rise of the far right. Our research shows how to address it | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer

Based on our new PPRNet research briefs @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and I argue in The Guardian that building alone won't solve the housing crisis. Housing is fundamentally redistributive, and progressive policy must treat it as such.

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Tomorrow!! See you there

We examine how divergent data conceptions contributed to the failure of TradeLens, a major collaborative digital platform in maritime logistics.

We hope our findings help inform ongoing research and debates on how to design and sustain collaborative platforms in the future.

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I’m happy to share that my new article, 'Platform failures: How conflicting data conceptions undermine digital collaboration,' co-authored with Tom Chabosseau, has just been published in Competition & Change.
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And here it is: "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage" (open access)

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It ends with reflections on how these imaginaries inform the financialization of land and housing.

It explores how valuers work with different moral imaginaries of land markets-shaping not just how market value is assessed, but how land is understood as an asset.

Excited to share that my article on land valuation in England and Germany is now out in Environment and Planning A (@economyandspace.bsky.social)!

Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#land #valuation #financialization #urbanstudies #assetization #econsoc #marketstudies

The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!

You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Land Question / Die Bodenfrage - KTB Keynotes: Omar Dahbour (CUNY Graduate Center), Isabel Feichtner (Universität Würzburg)

Good day to announce this:

THE LAND QUESTION / DIE BODENFRAGE

Oktober 30 - 31, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum, HU Berlin

Keynotes: Omar Dahbour (CUNY Graduate Center), Isabel Feichtner (Universität Würzburg)

send us your abstracts by June 4!

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OnlineFirst - "Land, values, and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany" by Alexander Dobeson:

#landmarkets #valuation #imaginaries #fictitiouscommodities #morality

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Sorting out economic forms: a field guide to contemporary capitalism A series of recent works have put forward a post-commodification understanding of the contemporary economy as based on one central economic form. While this approach allows us to conceptualize the ...

In our new issue, @alexdobeson.bsky.social @toteraltermann.bsky.social and Saskia Brill develop a field guide to the most salient forms of contemporary capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

New article! It was a treat to be invited to contribute to and working with the editors and co-contributors in this special issue on economic ventures seeking or claiming to do good. valuationstudies.liu.se/article/view...

Also, check out the full issue here: valuationstudies.liu.se/issue/view/496