Seminar Series on Political Economy – Spring 2026: Session #4 with Ismael Yrigov Cadena
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This spring, the Political Economy Master’s programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon) and PhD programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, ISEG – University of Lisbon, and FE – University of Coimbra) are hosting a seminar series on pressing issues in capitalist societies, held at Iscte from March 3 to May 28, 2026.
The series calls for an interdisciplinary perspective grounded in historical, political, institutional knowledge and imagination. It brings together leading scholars in the field of Political Economy to examine the rise of authoritarianism; the politics of quantification; the financialization of the economy and its impact on systems of provision, such as housing; the emergence of asset manager capitalism and growing wealth inequality.
Open to all, the Seminar Series on Political Economy is co-organized by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, the Department of Political Economy at Iscte’s School of Social Sciences, and the Portuguese Association for Political Economy.
The upcoming session "Housing accessibility and class: missing links?", presented by Ismael Yrigoy Cadena (University of the Balearic Islands), will take place on 14 May 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Auditorium A306, at 18:00.
Ismael Yrigoy is a geographer and Ramón y Cajal research fellow at the University of the Balearic Islands. He previously held research positions at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Uppsala University. His research focuses on the political economy of housing markets, particularly in Spain in the post-2008 period. His work has been published in journals such as Antipode, IJURR, Geoforum, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, and Tourism Geographies.