Dr. Aretousa Bloom

Biography

Aretousa Bloom is a Fellow in Urban Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a broad interest in understanding the transformations in the nature of contemporary capitalism, focusing on the intersection of finance and various facets of urban social life. Her research and teaching interests include land and housing financialisation, speculative urbanism, public debt, state power, urban climate politics, climate risk, visual culture, and social theory. Aretousa holds a PhD in Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, an MSc in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining LSE, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Jan Wallander Tom Hedelius Foundation at Uppsala University in Sweden and has taught and researched at Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her expertise includes Financialisation, Urban Political Economy, Housing, and Climate Politics.

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