1. Gigantism, infrastructure and energy • Financialized power leaves its mark on the built environment and the type of development pursued • There is a synergistic relationship between building ‘big’ infrastructure, concentrating power within party-states (and corruption) and the...

Objectives Premises Structural adjustment laid the foundation for informalization and criminalisation at all scales Many assets now vertically linked to offshore spaces and opportunities for corruption global processes of Financialization are linked to national and local processes of accumulation...