Defne Kadioglu is a researcher working on housing inequality, urban policy, and political economy, often in their intersection with racialized geographies. She has published on issues such as rental housing financialization, gentrification and rent gap formation in stigmatized neighborhoods as well as tenant struggles. In the framework of two research projects, she is currently interrogating the implications of sustainable finance tools within the Swedish housing and public sectors as well as the housing-energy nexus in the context of a just green transitions.
Publications
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Terra Nullius : On Urbicide, the Zionist Colonial… | article-journal | 2026 |
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The game of rental housing financialization : Institutional… | article-journal | 2026 |
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It Takes a Village to Get a PhD… | article-journal | 2025 |
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Flowing Capital‐Disrupted Homes : Financialisation and Maintenance of… | article-journal | 2024 |
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Producing and closing rent gaps : political and… | chapter | 2024 |
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Producing gentrifiable neighborhoods : race, stigma and struggle… | article-journal | 2024 |
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Editorial : Dislocating Urban Studies | article-journal | 2022 |
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Transnationella bostadsbolag, ägarbyten och lokal organisering bland hyresgäster | chapter | 2022 |
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Book Review. Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck and Eric… | review-book | 2021 |
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‘No one is larger than the state.’ :… | article-journal | 2021 |
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The role of schools in the de- and… | article-journal | 2021 |
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‘Now the German comes’ : The ethnic effect… | article-journal | 2020 |
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Creatively Displaced? The Impact of Neoliberal Urban Policies… | chapter | 2019 |
Research Themes
The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…