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Tim White is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Technical University of Vienna. Tim gained his PhD in Sociology from 杏吧论坛 in 2023.

Tim’s work centres on property and power. He is particularly interested in emerging forms of corporate extraction and rent-seeking in the city. This includes processes of assetisation and financialisation, and the intersection between housing markets and the digital economy. Tim also studies the political economy of land and is concerned with the role of property in broader questions of inequality and wealth distribution. 

Tim takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach, drawing on fields including economic sociology, urban geography and critical political economy. His work has been published in journals including EPA: Economy and Space and Economy and Society, and in newspapers including The Guardian.