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Rafaella Lima

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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Sheffield Uni Management School. Asset managers, wealth chains, housing, uneven development.

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Apr 23

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/...

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...

journals.sagepub.com

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jun 27

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!

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Emanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social · Jun 25

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!

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Prof Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social · Jun 24

This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · Jun 23

Mary Robertson as our first keynote, arguing for the need to critically develop Marxist categories of rent when analysing the built environment

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · Dec 8

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....

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...

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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · May 7

This is up until Friday!

Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · Apr 29

Sheffield friends, please check out the Gaza Remains the Story exhibit. It’s curated by the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank and brought to Sheffield by Annapurna Menon as part of the Festival of Debate. The exhibit runs until 9 May (11am-4pm) at Soft Ground, The Moor.

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · Apr 29

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. 📣

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

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Mónica García @monicagarciag.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

Feliz 25 de abril 🌹

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Apr 23

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...

journals.sagepub.com

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Apr 3

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!

Urban Institute @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social · Apr 2

Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers ...

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

2024 Prize Winners → Urban Geography

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · Mar 24

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...

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.

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Mar 19

Unconscionable

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Mar 19

Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career

Did Netanyahu Break the Gaza Ceasefire to Save His Political Career?

The nearly two-month ceasefire in Gaza has been shattered as Israel carries out a second day of intense airstrikes. At least 27 Palestinians were killed in overnight strikes Tuesday night. This comes...

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Mar 12

wtf

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Mar 6

Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar is now LIVE!

Dive into the informative conversation with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @pillmad.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social on #Manchester ‘s model of property-led development.

Available here-
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Episode 2: Is Manchester's model of urban development a good blueprint for growth?

Urban Radar · Episode

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Feb 13

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.

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jan 31

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.

Sam Burgum @samburgum.bsky.social · Jan 30

Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · Jan 9

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...

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

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