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. Her research focuses on the intersections of finance and urban social life, with a keen interest in topics such as land, 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, as well as an MSc in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. Before joining LSE, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation at Uppsala University, Sweden, and has previously taught and researched at Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her expertise encompasses financialisation, urban political economy, housing, and climate politics.

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