Aretousa Bloom

Aretousa Bloom is an LSE Fellow in Urban Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on transformations in contemporary capitalism, particularly intersections between finance and urban/social life, including housing financialisation, speculative urbanism, public debt, and climate politics. She holds a PhD in Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University, an MSc in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Architecture from the University of Cambridge.

Prior to LSE, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Uppsala University (Sweden) funded by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation. She has taught and researched at Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her expertise spans urban political economy, climate risk governance, and visual culture analysis.

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