Peer-reviewed articles
Scoring high, paying up, gating in: middle-class formation and asset inequalities under digital capitalism in South Africa
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 50: 410-429, 2026
Exploring the spatial segmentation of housing markets from online listings
With Abella D., Martínez JH., Mazzoli M., Le Corre T., Alonso-Paulí E., Crespí-Cladera R., Louail T. & Ramasco J. EPJ Data Science, 14(34), 2025
The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(4), 534–558, 2024
‘You should do what India does’: FinTech ecosystems in India reshaping the geography of finance
With Urban M. & Wójcik D. Geoforum, vol. 151, 2024
Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?
Metropolitics, 2023
Urban geographies of financial convergence: situating Indian financial centres across global production and financial networks
With Urban M. & Wójcik D. Economic Geography, 99(5), 499–525, 2023
Ville et numérique : vers un renouveau de la ségrégation urbaine au Cap ?
Métropolitiques, 2022
Selecting Spaces, Classifying People: The Financialization of Housing in the South African City
Housing Policy Debate, 30(4), 640–660, 2020
Housing (In)Equity and the Spatial Dynamics of Homeownership in France: A Research Agenda
With Le Goix R., Casanova Enault L., Bonneval L., Le Corre T., Benites-Gambirazio E., Boulay G., Kutz W., Aveline-Dubach N. & Ysebaert R. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 112(1), 62–80, 2020
Who sells to whom in the suburbs? Home price inflation and the dynamics of sellers and buyers in the metropolitan region of Paris, 1996–2012
With Le Goix R., Giraud T., Cura R. & Le Corre T. PLoS ONE, 14(3), 2019
Showcasing the sovereignty of non-self-governing islands: New Caledonia
With Prinsen G. & Lafoy Y. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 58, 331–346, 2017
Forum & commentary
From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism?
Journal of Cultural Economy, 2026. Invited commentary on Fourcade & Healy, The Ordinal Society
Maps, Apps and Race: The Market as a Theoretical Machine
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 115(3), 346–352, 2024
Book
With Wójcik D., Iliopoulos P., Ioannou S., Keenan L., Monteath T., Pažitka V., Torrance M., Urban M., Cheshire J. & Uberti O. Yale University Press, 2024
- Best Book of the Year in Economics and Best Single Volume, Association of American Publishers, 2025
- Gold Medal, Axiom Business Book Award, Category International Business and Globalization
- Translated into 12 languages
Book chapters
From Location to Attention: recoding housing markets for digital capitalism
In Hynes D., Kitchin R. & Mutter S. (eds.), The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning, Bristol University Press [forthcoming, 2026]
Placing race in planetary financialization
In Halbert L. et al. & Hoefsloot F. (eds.), Financialization and Space, Edward Elgar Publishing [forthcoming, 2026]
Follow the data: computing the algorithmic periphery with credit scores and property values
In Datta A. & Hoefsloot F. (eds.), Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age, UCL Press, 2025
Le township · Le stade
In Bussi M., Drozdz M. & Argounès F. (eds.), Nos Lieux communs, Editions Fayard, 2024
L’investissement immobilier à l’heure du numérique : création d’un marché locatif et renouvellement des inégalités urbaines au Cap
In Drozdz M. & Souami T. (eds.), Financement de l’aménagement urbain, Éditions du Moniteur, 2022
Urban national parks and housing markets in emerging cities: places of exclusiveness, places of opportunities
With Shaban A. & Soares Gonçalves R. In Landy F. (ed.), Whose Naturbanity? Urban National Parks in emerging cities, Springer, 2018
Le quartier Tuband
In Bonvallot J., Gay J.-C. & Habert E. (eds.), Atlas de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, IRD-Congrès de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, 2012
Dissertation
A city to sell. Digitalization and financialization of the housing market in Cape Town: stratification and segregation in the emerging global city
PhD in Geography, summa cum laude, University Grenoble Alpes, 2020
- National Doctoral Prize in Urban Studies, PUCA (2021)
- National Prize for Best Dissertation in Geography, French National Committee of Geography (2021)
- Special Mention of the Jury, PSL Humanities & Social Sciences Dissertation Prize (2021)
Early work
L’école des Springboks : le rugby scolaire au Cap entre ségrégation et déségrégation
M@ppemonde, 2012
Le rugby en Afrique du Sud face au défi de transformation : jeu de pouvoir, outil de développement et force symbolique
Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, 250, 253–274, 2010
Spatial Justice in Postcolonial Noumea: The Tuband project
MA Thesis, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2012