Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People
Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain
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Pages: 240
Illustrations: 9 b&w images
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 11/15/2022
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6300-4
List Price: $30.95
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Pub Date: 11/15/2022
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6831-3
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Pub Date: 11/15/2022
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6301-1
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Pub Date: 11/15/2022
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6299-1
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Related Subjects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / Mortgages
Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People
Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain
An unorthodox, ground-level account of what happens when people stop paying their mortgages
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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 engagement with activist research in Barcelona’s housing movement, in particular with its most prominent collective, the Platform for Mortgage-Affected People (PAH). What García-Lamarca learned from fellow activists and the movement in Barcelona pushed her 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.
—Elvin Wyly, author of The Evolving State of Gentrification
—Christopher Harker, author of Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine
—Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez, Urban Studies
—ALLISON LANG and JAVIER AUYERO, Public Books