A research lab at ICTA-UAB
Financialization is a term used to signal the ascendancy of finance and financial capital in the process of capital accumulation and in people’s everyday lives. Housing has played an increasingly important role in this process, both as an avenue to connect local development dynamics and daily life into global financial flows and as an arena of resistance and struggle. BCNUEJ’s current research in this stream considers how financialization operates in relation to urban green space development, implementation and management, unpacking the effect and interplay of financial mechanisms particularly on mortgaged and rental housing.
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From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing: Insurgent Practices in Spain (International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, 2017)
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‘Mortgaged lives’: the biopolitics of debt and housing financialisation (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2016)