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This paper's main argument is that housing financialisation can be understood as a set of intertwined digital/material processes, and that resisting housing financialisation requires activism that recognises and capitalises on this dynamic. Drawing from Desiree Fields' (2017a) work on urban struggles with financialisation, this conceptual argument is unpacked through a case study of post-crash Dublin, an urban space reshaped by housing financialisation and struggles resisting it. Housing has been a key subject of contention in post-crash Dublin and activists' digital/material struggles illustrate how digital technologies and platforms can be and are appropriated to resist housing financialisation. The paper traces the intertwining of housing financialisation, resistance, and the digital in post-crash Dublin and argues that future research on platform real estate, urbanism, and automated landlord practices must take seriously the ambivalent opportunities, agency, and counter narratives that housing activists create through their digital/material practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Neoliberal Urban Governance: Spaces, Culture and Discourses in Buenos Aires and Chicago" is a book that explores the intersection between neoliberalism and urban development in two cities, Buenos Aires and Chicago. The book takes a comparative approach, examining the similarities and differences in neoliberal urban governance in the Global North and Global South. It discusses the impact of neoliberal policies on property-led regeneration, gentrification, and the transformation of urban spaces and identities. The book highlights the role of discourse in shaping these processes and emphasizes the unequal and raced nature of neoliberal urban governance. Overall, it provides an engaging and empirically grounded analysis of neoliberalism in urban contexts. [Extracted from the article]