A research lab at ICTA-UAB
Research Line Co-leader
Melissa is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow working on the CLIMATEJUSTHOME project at DIST, Polytechnic of Turin, and is a member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab and an associated researcher with BCNUEJ. With a PhD in Geography from the University of Manchester, she held Spanish- and ERC-funded postdoctoral positions from 2016-2022 at ICTA-UAB with BCNUEJ. Her work untangles the lived experiences of housing financialisation and collective struggles towards housing justice, as well as the financial and real estate related dimensions of urban green inequalities.
She is a co-founder and editorial member of the Radical Housing Journal editorial, and has twenty years of experience working as a consultant in a sustainability workers cooperative, a researcher, teacher and project coordinator in Spain, Canada and internationally. Melissa is co-leader of the “Financialization, Housing Justice and Climate Change” and “Feminist and Urban Political Ecology” research lines at BCNUEJ. (Languages: Cat, Spa, Eng)
Keywords
- Housing financialisation
- Climate just housing
- Urban political ecology
- Green finance
Affiliated Projects
Selected Publications
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Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People: Life and Struggle with MortgageDebt in Spain (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2022) Forthcoming in Spanish with Bellaterra edicions in 2023
- Injustice in Urban Sustainability: Ten Core Drivers (London: Routledge, 2022)
- Challenging the financial capture of urban greening (Nature communications, 2022)
- Urban green grabbing: Residential real estate developers discourse and practice in gentrifying Global North neighborhoods (Geoforum, 2022)
- “Everyone wants this market to grow”: The affective post-politics of municipal green bonds (Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022)
- Real estate crisis resolution regimes and residential REITs: emerging socio-spatial impacts in Barcelona (Housing Studies, 2020)
Editorial
- Lived realities versus state rationalities: Mobilizing within and against housing injustices (Radical Housing Journal, 2022)
- Valuing housing in the normalised crises: Resistance, fatigue and lexicons of struggle (Radical Housing Journal, 2021)Radical housing (dis)encounters: Reframing housing research and praxis (Radical Housing Journal 2020)
- Covid-19 and housing struggles: The (re)makings of austerity, disaster capitalism, and the no return to normal (Radical Housing Journal, 2020)
- Interrogating Rent: Structures, Struggles and Subjectivities (Radical Housing Journal, 2019)
- Introducing the Radical Housing Journal (Radical Housing Journal, 2019)