Rafaella Lima

Make sure to follow @valspacepower.bsky.social for future updates, and also check out the rest of the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social summer program!

Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!

This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation!

Thank you so much @drsarahhall.bsky.social for joining us!

Amazing opening keynote yesterday by Mary Robertson at our 2-day Valuation, Space and Power workshop!

Asset manager capitalism and the political economy of artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next technological frontier in asset management. Drawing on the asset manager capitalism literature in International Political Economy (IPE) and the scho...

Thrilled to share my new paper on asset manager capitalism and the political economy of artificial intelligence! 🤓 A heartfelt thank you to the @ripejournal.bsky.social editorial board and anonymous reviewers for providing the perfect home for this work. ❤️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

This is up until Friday!

Sheffield Management School out in force today, striking for no compulsory redundancies! 💪@sheffielducu.bsky.social

SU flier: 10:00: Learn a Minority Language: Mari by Irina Sadovina, Gallery Room 3 Sheffield Labour Against Benefit Cuts by Ash Taylor, Gallery Room 2 11:00: Does Confronting Prejudice Work?, by Lilith Roberts Gallery Room 2 Sewing/crafting skills swap, by Jessica Baily, Gallery Room 3 12:00: Rally: Students and Staff Against University Cuts! SU Concourse 13:00:Student & Staff Tea Time, hosted by Tea Soc, Uni Central 14:00: The Fight for the Archeology Department by Umberto Albarella, Uni Central 15:00: Palestine organising and repression, by SUCU’s Working Group on Palestine, Uni Central Zine Making & Quilting for an Anti-Ableist University, by Cassie Kill & Daniel Jones, Gallery Room 3

Tomorrow our members are taking strike action to say no to job cuts! 💪

Join our picket lines from 8:30am, as well as various teach outs from 10am, and a Demo on the SU Concourse from Midday. 📣

Em cada esquina, um amigo. Em cada rosto, igualdade.

Feliz 25 de abril 🌹

Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market - Rafaella Lima, 2025 This paper examines how Lisbon transformed from a city widely seen as a crisis-ridden ‘no-go’ zone into an ideal real estate investment destination. This redesi...

Very proud to present a new paper out in Environment and Planning A. I look at how real estate actors re-framed Lisbon as a viable investment destination in the post-crisis era, which today means the city has some of the highest housing costs in Europe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Deadline 30 April! It will be a really exciting and fun week for ECRs in Sheffield: one workshop on Valuation, Space and Power and a second one on Emerging Urban Inequalities hosted by @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social. Be sure to check them out!

It was very cool to receive an honorable mention for the Urban Geography 2024 Early Career Researcher Prize, for my article “Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development”
www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/earl...

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

Hossam Shabat’s Last Article Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.

Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”

We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:

www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

Unconscionable

wtf

Listen to my brilliant colleagues @adamleaver.bsky.social and @richmgoulding.bsky.social chat about who benefits from Manchester's urban development model.

Breaking News | An Israeli sniper has shot and killed a 15-year old child in central Gaza's Al-Buraij Camp. The boy was reportedly trying to inspect his family home in an area from which the Israeli military recently withdrew.

Stimulating discussions last week at the 2nd Planetary Financialization workshop. Bonus: practicing lots of French and Portuguese in Paris 🥰

It was a pleasure to discuss Isaac Rose's book last night as part of @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social Jan program. In my brief visits to Manchester the city center has felt so alienating to me. It turns out there are of course many historic and political reasons for this, which this book unpacks.

Letterboxd year-in-review or life year-in-review?

Book Launch: Isaac Rose's 'The Rentier City ' Book Launch: Isaac Rose's 'The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis’, Channing Hall, Sheffield City Centre

The next public event as part of the Urban Riches group sees our Sheffield launch of Isaac Rose's excellent analysis of Manchester - The Rentier City. All are very welcome!

Registration for this free public event in Sheffield here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...