Bringing farmland into financial logics: materiality, state power and rural geographies

Sarah Ruth Sippel

Chapter 12 in Handbook on Financialisation and Space, 2026, pp 200-211 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Land is a deeply multidimensional entity, fundamental to human survival, identity, and livelihood security, while also historically bound to processes of territorialisation, governance, and contestation. In recent decades, the rise of financialisation has increasingly reframed land as an asset, yet its distinct materiality, social meaning, and moral value complicate its incorporation into financial logics. This chapter examines the financialisation of farmland in addressing three central themes: the role of the state in shaping finance–farmland relations, the significance of land's materiality in finance-driven capital accumulation, and the embedding of financial land investments in rural geographies. Drawing on the concept of (re-)spatialisation, the chapter highlights how imaginaries of land interact with practices of reformatting space, and identifies the specific (re-)spatialisations of land that occur as a result of financialisation.

Keywords: Financialisation; Farmland; Land Imaginaries; Spatialisation; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035328628
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