David Bassens
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category
professor
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research group
Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research
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keywords
economy & finance
David Bassens is Professor of Economic Geography and Director of Cosmopolis: Centre for Urban Research at VUB, a research group dedicated to urban research and action embedded in the Department of Geography as well as the Urban and Socio-Environmental Transformations Research Hub at USQUARE. He is a Founding Member a FinGeo, the Global Network on Financial Geography, member of the Foundational Economy Collective, and editor of the journal Finance and Space.
His research engages in a critical analysis of the role of cities in global financialized capitalism and seeks to uncover emergent urban economic imaginaries that challenge this order. He is an active voice in debates on world and global cities, financial geographies of European Integration, geographies of FinTech and Big Tech, Islamic finance and emerging markets, and geographies of the circular and foundational economy.