Non-Peforming Loans, Non-Performing People: Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain
(2022) In Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation- Abstract
- Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold
stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores
how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward
housing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa García-Lamarca’s
activist research engagement in Barcelona’s housing movement, in particular
with its most prominent collective, the Platform for Mortgage-Affected People
(PAH). Learning from and with fellow activists and the movement in
Barcelona pushed the author to rethink how lived experiences of indebtedness connect to larger political-economic processes related to housing and debt.
The book is also inspired by feminist... (More) - Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold
stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores
how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward
housing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa García-Lamarca’s
activist research engagement in Barcelona’s housing movement, in particular
with its most prominent collective, the Platform for Mortgage-Affected People
(PAH). Learning from and with fellow activists and the movement in
Barcelona pushed the author to rethink how lived experiences of indebtedness connect to larger political-economic processes related to housing and debt.
The book is also inspired by feminist scholars who integrate the lens of everyday
life into explorations of contemporary political economy and by anthropologists
who connect macroprocesses to lived experience. Distinctive in how it integrates
a racialized, gendered, and decolonial perspective, García-Lamarca’s research of
mortgaged lives in precarious times explores two principal phenomena: first, how
financial speculation is experienced in the day-to-day and differentially embedded
in the dynamics of (urban) capital accumulation, and second, how collective action
can unleash the liberating possibility of indebtedness. (Less)
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- author
- García, Melissa LU
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Debt, Housing, Social movement, financialisation of built environment, Biopolitics
- in
- Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
- pages
- 222 pages
- publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- ISBN
- 9-780-8203-6301-1
- 9-780-8203-6300-4
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 2600612e-9ad0-47b5-a040-3d955ab4f705
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- 2024-02-06 14:24:23
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