Financialization, commodification and space-time restructuring: reflections from the systemic cycles of accumulation approach and the theory of double movement

Abstract

We intend, with the present article, to reflect on the relations between financialization and commodification. The main objective of this research is to find theoretical frameworks for the understanding of the current cycle of space-time restructuring based on the theories of the capitalist world-system and of the political economy of international relations. Our exposition has two objectives. First, we will position ourselves, from a Braudelian and Polanyian perspective, in the debates about the meanings attributed to financialization and commodification. Next, we will illustrate, with some examples, how these perspectives suggest the construction of new views on phenomena that are at the center of investigations in the field of urban and territorial studies.

financialization; commodification; systemic cycles of accumulation; double movement.