Emily Rosenman is an urban and economic geographer researching the connections between finance, urbanization, and inequality. Her work is motivated by the aim of understanding relationships that produce both wealth and impoverishment, with particular attention to the uneven geographies of financialization and racialization that characterize contemporary urban life.
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Geographies of super-philanthropy: Complex factions
Bok, R., Rosenman, E., Fuentenebro, P. & Acuto, M., Nov 2025, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 15, 3, p. 388-393 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Follow the liquidity: Monetary policy, spatial inequality and the Bank of Canada's emergency COVID-19 corporate debt programs
Cohen, D., August, M., Rosenman, E. & Liu, Y., Aug 2025, In: Geoforum. 164, 104346.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Who benefits from state investment? Interrogating distribution under (urban) state venturism
Cohen, D. & Rosenman, E., Jul 2025, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 15, 2, p. 295-299 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex
Fuentenebro, P., Bok, R., Rosenman, E. & Acuto, M., Nov 2025, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 15, 3, p. 351-372 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
From dealer to doctor: A case study examining how Purdue Pharma sought to leverage racial health disparities to attenuate flagging OxyContin sales
Rosenman, E., Buck, R. K., Anjum, N., Thompson, L., Rist, J., Banuna, L., Dolgoff, E., Hartmann, S., Lelei, S., Feng, Z. & Holmes, L., Oct 2025, In: Social Science and Medicine. 382, 118132.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Locating the Public, Dislocating Knowledge Production: An Introduction to Public Economic Geographies for the Twenty-First Century
Narayan, P. & Rosenman, E. T., 2024, In: Professional Geographer. 76, 6, p. 793-796 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bringing life's work to market: Frontiers, framings, and frictions in marketised social reproduction
Rosenman, E., Loomis, J., Cohen, D. & Baker, T., Feb 2024, In: Environment and Planning A. 56, 1, p. 190-198 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Economic geography for and by whom? Rethinking expertise and accountability
Rosenman, E. & Narayan, P., Jul 2024, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 14, 2, p. 307-311 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
From relational thinking to relational politics of responsibility: Reclaiming outrage in economic geography
Rosenman, E., Aug 2024, In: Environment and Planning A. 56, 5, p. 1577-1583 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
From the racialization of finance to the financing of anti-racism: Tracing the US financial industry’s investments in closing the racial wealth gap
Rosenman, E., Feb 2024, In: Environment and Planning A. 56, 1, p. 253-269 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada's pandemic-era housing market
August, M., Cohen, D. & Rosenman, E., Mar 1 2023, In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 16, 1, p. 225-238 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reimagining geographies of public finance
August, M., Cohen, D., Danyluk, M., Kass, A., Ponder, C. S. & Rosenman, E., Apr 2022, In: Progress in Human Geography. 46, 2, p. 527-548 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reparative accumulation? Financial risk and investment across socio-environmental crises
Cohen, D., Nelson, S. & Rosenman, E., Dec 2022, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 5, 4, p. 2356-2382 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
From crisis to the everyday: Shouldn't we all be writing economies?
Narayan, P. & Rosenman, E., Mar 2022, In: Environment and Planning A. 54, 2, p. 392-404 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Promises and Profit in “Debt-Free” Higher Education: The Geographies of Income Share Agreements in the United States
Rosenman, E., Cohen, D., Baker, T. & Arapko, K., 2022, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112, 8, p. 2305-2323 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review