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Bio

Manuel B. Aalbers is professor of Human Geography at KU Leuven where he leads a research group on the intersection of real estate, finance and states. He takes a political economy approach to studying the effects of ‘big’ processes like financialization and neoliberalization on cities and housing markets across the globe and has published on redlining and exclusion, the privatization of social housing, neighborhood decline and gentrification. He is the author of Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets and The Financialization of Housing as well as the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies and editor-in-chief of geography journal TESG.