M Janoschka
Biographic Data
| ID | 25646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Janoschka |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Janoschka |
| SIGNATURE | JANOSCHKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6092-9052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Money, meaning, and territory: Family business groups and agro-extractive systems in Latin America
Family business groups play a significant role in Latin America’s agro-extractive systems. While research on agro-extractivism has focused primarily on territorial expansion and transnational agribusiness, less attention has been paid to the actors that coordinate relations across multiple sites and stages of value chains. Drawing on critical socio-spatial perspectives, this article examines family business groups as organisational actors that co…
Coping with financialisation. Understanding socio-emotional dynamics in urban housing markets
Financialisation increasingly exposes asset-poor households, often reluctantly, to the adverse effects of urban property inflation. This phenomenon is characterised by experiences of ‘unwillingness’ within financialised housing systems. Yet, there remains limited understanding of how households across diverse housing tenures confront and navigate the socio-emotional repercussions of financialisation. Moreover, the specific ways in which different…
Housing stratification and the politics of tenure: Socio-temporal inequalities in Leipzig
Rental housing markets in Germany and other European countries are experiencing profound transformations, generating new forms of inequality. While existing research often emphasises binary divisions, such as between owners and tenants, or across generations, it rarely captures the layered stratifications within the rental sector itself. This paper uses original household survey data from Leipzig-Connewitz ( n = 427), a neighbourhood marked by po…
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class
The formation of asset classes is a core feature of financialisation. As investors continually seek novel revenue streams, they develop mechanisms to transform a growing array of goods and services into tradable, income-generating financial assets. Over the last decade, short-term rentals have consolidated as a distinct asset class, facilitated by digital platforms such as Airbnb and supported by property managers who offer investor confidence an…
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: Urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador
Pathways of Co-Production: Negotiations and contextual insights into Quito's peripheral urbanisation
This study offers a detailed examination of urban habitat co-production in a semi-peripheral community of Quito, Ecuador, spotlighting a dynamic interplay of dialogue and negotiation between the Municipality and local communities. The stakeholders endeavour to preserve and evolve their ancestral territories in the absence of state support and amidst the challenges of formal urban development. Our research uncovers a rich tapestry of community col…
Local Housing Policies and Corporate Social Financial Logics: Insights from the Financialization of Housing in Barcelona
This article explores the way local states can challenge the process of housing financialization, by focusing on policy innovation for housing vulnerability. Building upon theoretical discourses that emphasize the influence of financial investors in shaping policy frameworks, we suggest that institutional settings that develop independently of financial logics and prioritize social policies can both incite shifts in financial investors' strategie…
Las biopolíticas de la financiarización de la vivienda: Una aproximación a las violencias epistémicas del capitalismo financiero
This article provides a conceptual understanding of the processes of financialization based on the concept of the biopolitics of housing financialization. Drawing on the Foucauldian categories of disciplining and regulation, we elaborate an empirical analysis of the mechanisms that, in Mexico, propagated the aspiration of various sectors of the population with limited resources to have access to a home of their own through mortgage loans. The con…
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: The experience of Ahora Madrid
Between 2015 and 2019, the Spanish capital, Madrid, was governed by the movement party Ahora Madrid, a novel political actor strongly connected to anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements gathered under the umbrella of the Indignados, or ‘15 M’, movement. Against the background of the party’s abundant hopes for regenerating urban democracy at the beginning of its term, our research asks how and to what extent Ahora Madrid translated the movemen…
Ecuadorian housing resettlements five years after the 2016 earthquake: A critical analysis
New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded ? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)
Local politics in Spain has triggered iconic shifts over the last few years, and the electoral success of new ‘movement parties’ in particular has dramatically challenged the political establishment. Between 2015 and 2019, many municipalities – including, crucially, the two biggest cities, Madrid and Barcelona – were governed by coalitions originating from anti-austerity, anti-eviction and pro-democracy struggles. This has significantly affected …
Agonistic politics in post‐crisis landscapes: Comparative insights from Athens and Madrid
Critical debates in human geography have interrogated the changing political landscapes of the post‐2008 crisis period and the post‐democratic imprint of neoliberal reconfigurations in Europe. Moreover, geographers have offered insights into politicisation processes that disrupted the post‐crisis consensus, attesting to the possibility inherent within forms of democratic politics. Contributing to these debates, this paper critically engages with …
Vivienda social en Ecuador: Violencias y contestaciones en la producción progresista de periferias urbanas
Social housing production was one of the emblems of the Ecuadorian policy of the "Citizen Revolution" chaired by Rafael Correa for 10 years. From the case of Ecuador, it is analyzed how progressive governments applied policies in the field of social housing and urban development. This article tracks the scales of application these social policies had regarding neoliberalism, from the point of view of the violence and responses that the process pr…
Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook
Transnational gentrifications have been occurring at the crossroads of capital investment fuelled to satisfy the remarkable increase of so-called leisure-oriented mobilities. Such mobilities, however, cause disruptive social, spatial and economic transformations of urban and rural landscapes across the globe. Consequently, transnational gentrifications may be considered a crucial testimonial of economic shifts, during the 2008–2020 period of accu…
Megacity
A megacity is typically defined as a metropolitan area with a population that exceeds 10 million inhabitants. The sheer size of megacities implicates administrative, political, economic, social, and environmental challenges, which have required specific attention from urban planners, architects, and engineers. However, the importance of megacities in an increasingly urbanized world goes beyond the simple numeric dimension. They also crystallize p…
Neighborhood Change
Neighborhood change addresses the dynamics of the physical, social, and demographic composition of specific places and spaces with symbolic cohesion in the city. Understanding this transformation requires a theoretical framework that includes both the agency of individual and institutional actors and the structural power arising from urban capital accumulation. Hence, neighborhood change exemplifies the social and spatial injustices of contempora…
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism refers to the contemporary transformation of capitalism. While claiming to extend laissez‐faire economic principles such as free markets and unhampered trade, neoliberalism essentially seeks state support and intervention for enhancing capital circulation. Prospering from the dismantling of the welfare state and the privatization of public assets, it asks for deregulation and reregulation policies that allow higher revenues for the …
Tracing the socio-spatial logics of transnational landlords’ real estate investment: Blackstone in Madrid
The rapid internationalisation of the Spanish property market has triggered debates about the main characteristics of emerging post-crisis urban dynamics. Financial and urban policy reforms have shaped a model depicted by incessant rent increases and displacements. Echoing these concerns, this article addresses two interconnected objectives about the way policy restructuring encouraged transnational investments into Spanish real estate and the co…
Who Loses and Who Wins in a Housing Crisis? Lessons From Spain and Greece for a Nuanced Understanding of Dispossession
The emerging postcrisis geographies in Southern Europe are intrinsically related to debt and dispossession. In Spain, mortgage homeownership and indebtedness led to housing dispossessions, while in Greece, skyrocketing private indebtedness is eventually arranged through housing foreclosures. Building upon the notion of accumulation by dispossession, i.e., on the way capital accumulates wealth in the era of neoliberal globalization, this article e…
Peripheral urbanisation in Mexico City. A comparative analysis of uneven social and material geographies in low-income housing estates
Gentrificación, desplazamiento, desposesión: Procesos urbanos claves en América Latina
Este artículo aporta una comprensión pormenorizada de los procesos urbanos claves que se han ido perpetuando en las ciudades latinoamericanas durante los primeros tres lustros del siglo XXI y que consisten en la reconquista de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales por parte del capital inmobiliario. Esta metamorfosis de la ciudad consolidada se ha manifestado a partir del uso habitual de tres términos centrales: gentrificación, desplazamiento y de…
Presentación del dossier. La ciudad del siglo XXI: Políticas públicas urbanas, desplazamientos y contestaciones
Introduction to dossier "Twenty-First century cities: Urban public policy, displacement and contestation
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
Gentrification in Latin America: Addressing the politics and geographies of displacement
In this article, we develop a contextual framing for the analysis of the social, economic and political transformations that have altered Latin American cities since the turn of the century, especially by displacing deprived households from the central city. We de-centre research on gentrification through the territorial and linguistic lens of Latin America, epitomising four simultaneously paradigmatic, but diverging and diverse gentrification sc…
Politiche di gentrification nel centro storico di Madrid: Creatività, Produzione Culturale E Commercio Al Dettaglio
L’implementazione di politiche selettive e di strategie di partnership tra settore pubblico e privato ha trasformato radicalmente la composizione sociale nel centro storico di Madrid. Puntando sulla creativita, la produzione culturale e il commercio al dettaglio quali fattori chiave per attrarre nuovi stili di vita, il centro della citta e stato riconvertito in uno spazio altamente commercializzato e segregato. In questo articolo, l’autore esamin…
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
Gentrification in Spain and Latin America - a Critical Dialogue
Major social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in Spain and Latin America. One key consequence is the recapture of city centres by wealthy tenants and the eviction of poorer households, a phenomenon usually designated by the term gentrification. In comparison to the comprehensive documentation of gentrification in the Anglophone …
Gentrification in Latin America: Addressing the politics and geographies of displacement
In this article, we develop a contextual framing for the analysis of the social, economic and political transformations that have altered Latin American cities since the turn of the century, especially by displacing deprived households from the central city. We de-centre research on gentrification through the territorial and linguistic lens of Latin America, epitomising four simultaneously paradigmatic, but diverging and diverse gentrification sc…
Tracing the socio-spatial logics of transnational landlords’ real estate investment: Blackstone in Madrid
The rapid internationalisation of the Spanish property market has triggered debates about the main characteristics of emerging post-crisis urban dynamics. Financial and urban policy reforms have shaped a model depicted by incessant rent increases and displacements. Echoing these concerns, this article addresses two interconnected objectives about the way policy restructuring encouraged transnational investments into Spanish real estate and the co…
New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded ? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)
Local politics in Spain has triggered iconic shifts over the last few years, and the electoral success of new ‘movement parties’ in particular has dramatically challenged the political establishment. Between 2015 and 2019, many municipalities – including, crucially, the two biggest cities, Madrid and Barcelona – were governed by coalitions originating from anti-austerity, anti-eviction and pro-democracy struggles. This has significantly affected …
Gentrificación y resistencia en las ciudades latinoamericanas El ejemplo de Santiago de Chile
Este artículo discute las modalidades mediante las cuales es posible aplicar el término "gentrificación" en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Para ello, se defiende en primer lugar la necesidad de disociar el término, en un ejercicio crítico, de los debates tradicionales del mundo anglosajón de los cuales procede. A raíz de ese proceso dialéctico, se propone su aplicación en dos dimensiones para las cuales parece tener una especial relevancia: la ge…
Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook
Transnational gentrifications have been occurring at the crossroads of capital investment fuelled to satisfy the remarkable increase of so-called leisure-oriented mobilities. Such mobilities, however, cause disruptive social, spatial and economic transformations of urban and rural landscapes across the globe. Consequently, transnational gentrifications may be considered a crucial testimonial of economic shifts, during the 2008–2020 period of accu…
Occupying the #Hotelmadrid: A Laboratory for Urban Resistance
Occupied the night after the worldwide mobilisation of 15 October 2011, the #hotelmadrid was an intensive, 50-day-long political experiment that turned an abandoned hotel in the heart of the Spanish capital into a radical political space and the perceived node of the indignados movement. The squatting of the hotel accomplishes key demands related to 'real democracy' and the re-appropriation of public space as a political space with claims for the…
Peripheral urbanisation in Mexico City. A comparative analysis of uneven social and material geographies in low-income housing estates
Between Mobility and Mobilization – Lifestyle Migration and the Practice of European Identity in Political Struggles
Lifestyle migration, such as the temporary or permanent movement of European citizens to coastal areas in Southern Europe, widely responds to the freedom of movement that EU citizenship provides to all its members. Although this migration can be evaluated as an individual and rather apolitical expression of a politically intended mobility within the European Union, it may seriously alter political life within destinations. The following article p…
Local Housing Policies and Corporate Social Financial Logics: Insights from the Financialization of Housing in Barcelona
This article explores the way local states can challenge the process of housing financialization, by focusing on policy innovation for housing vulnerability. Building upon theoretical discourses that emphasize the influence of financial investors in shaping policy frameworks, we suggest that institutional settings that develop independently of financial logics and prioritize social policies can both incite shifts in financial investors' strategie…
Gentrificación en España y América Latina: Un diálogo crítico
Las principales transformaciones sociales y polticas, as como la implementacin de las polticas urbanas neoliberales han alterado profundamente la estructuracin de las ciudades en Espaa y Amrica Latina. Entre sus consecuencias destaca la reconquista de los centros urbanos por las clases acomodadas, que conlleva la expulsin de los hogares con menores ingresos, un fenmeno generalmente abordado mediante el trmino de gentrifi cacin. Hasta el momento y…
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: The experience of Ahora Madrid
Between 2015 and 2019, the Spanish capital, Madrid, was governed by the movement party Ahora Madrid, a novel political actor strongly connected to anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements gathered under the umbrella of the Indignados, or ‘15 M’, movement. Against the background of the party’s abundant hopes for regenerating urban democracy at the beginning of its term, our research asks how and to what extent Ahora Madrid translated the movemen…
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class
The formation of asset classes is a core feature of financialisation. As investors continually seek novel revenue streams, they develop mechanisms to transform a growing array of goods and services into tradable, income-generating financial assets. Over the last decade, short-term rentals have consolidated as a distinct asset class, facilitated by digital platforms such as Airbnb and supported by property managers who offer investor confidence an…
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: Urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador
Pathways of Co-Production: Negotiations and contextual insights into Quito's peripheral urbanisation
This study offers a detailed examination of urban habitat co-production in a semi-peripheral community of Quito, Ecuador, spotlighting a dynamic interplay of dialogue and negotiation between the Municipality and local communities. The stakeholders endeavour to preserve and evolve their ancestral territories in the absence of state support and amidst the challenges of formal urban development. Our research uncovers a rich tapestry of community col…
Agonistic politics in post‐crisis landscapes: Comparative insights from Athens and Madrid
Critical debates in human geography have interrogated the changing political landscapes of the post‐2008 crisis period and the post‐democratic imprint of neoliberal reconfigurations in Europe. Moreover, geographers have offered insights into politicisation processes that disrupted the post‐crisis consensus, attesting to the possibility inherent within forms of democratic politics. Contributing to these debates, this paper critically engages with …
Presentación del dossier. La ciudad del siglo XXI: Políticas públicas urbanas, desplazamientos y contestaciones
Introduction to dossier "Twenty-First century cities: Urban public policy, displacement and contestation
Ciudadanía y espacio público en la era de la globalización neoliberal
Las profundas reformas en las condiciones económicas, sociales y políticas actuales están afectando gravemente el alcance de los derechos civiles, sociales y políticos de la ciudadanía. Un concepto, el de ciudadanía, que es atravesado por las lógicas neoliberales de producción del espacio público así como por la lógica histórica Derecho- Deber-Estado. Pero este mismo concepto de diudadanía puede ser analizado desde tres novedosos aspectos teórico…
Prácticas de ciudadanía europea. El uso estratégico de las identidades en la participación política de los inmigrantes comunitarios
La política local es un campo de negociación e intercambio social en el cual se perciben de forma destacada las profundas transformaciones que la sociedad española vivió a partir de los procesos masivos de inmigración de la última década. Este texto debatirá, a través de un análisis empírico de las formas de participación política en la costa mediterránea, qué alcance y magnitud de cambio introduce el derecho de voto activo y pasivo de extranjero…
El nuevo modelo de la ciudad latinoamericana: Fragmentación y privatización
Die Dynamik stadtstrukturellen Wandels in Lateinamerika im Modell der lateinamerikanischen Stadt
Als 1976 die ersten Versuche publiziert wurden, die lateinamerikanische Stadt im Strukturmodell darzustellen, befand sich der Subkontinent volkswirtschaftlich noch unter dem Einfluss der Entwicklungsstrategie der importsubstituierenden Entwicklung bei starker staatlicher Lenkung der Wirtschafts- und Planungsprozesse, auch im urbanen Raum. Seither haben die Länder Lateinamerikas, von Kuba einmal abgesehen, nicht nur einen Richtungswechsel zum Entw…
Die Flucht vor Gewalt? Stereotype und Motivationen beim Andrang auf barrios privados in Buenos Aires
Entgegen der medialen Berichterstattung zeigen die empirischen Erfahrungen in Buenos Aires, dass die Flucht in bewachte Wohnkomplexe keinen monokausalen Rückzug vor wachsender Gewalt darstellt. Der ausgeprägte Suburbanisierungsdrang konnte in den 1990er Jahren mit der Stabilisierung des Kreditwesens und nach dem Ausbau der Autobahnen von vielen jungen Familien der Mittelschicht verwirklicht werden. Dies stellt auch eine Konsequenz der unzureichen…
Prácticas de ciudadanía europea. El uso estratégico de las identidades en la participación política de los inmigrantes comunitarios
La política local es un campo de negociación e intercambio social en el cual se perciben de forma destacada las profundas transformaciones que la sociedad española vivió a partir de los procesos masivos de inmigración de la última década. Este texto debatirá, a través de un análisis empírico de las formas de participación política en la costa mediterránea, qué alcance y magnitud de cambio introduce el derecho de voto activo y pasivo de extranjero…
Between Mobility and Mobilization – Lifestyle Migration and the Practice of European Identity in Political Struggles
Lifestyle migration, such as the temporary or permanent movement of European citizens to coastal areas in Southern Europe, widely responds to the freedom of movement that EU citizenship provides to all its members. Although this migration can be evaluated as an individual and rather apolitical expression of a politically intended mobility within the European Union, it may seriously alter political life within destinations. The following article p…
Geografías urbanas en la era del neoliberalismo. Una conceptualización de la resistencia local a través de la participación y la ciudadanía urbana
Las discusiones relacionadas con la (in)seguridad urbana, su consiguiente traducción política en un gobierno de la seguridad y la edificación de elementos urbanísticos defensivos han experimentado un auge espectacular a nivel mundial. En este artículo se interpretan las transformaciones urbanas (defensivas), estimuladas por un discurso dominante que está centrado en el miedo y la inseguridad, como una expresión del capitalismo global y de la difu…
Ciudadanía y espacio público en la era de la globalización neoliberal
Las profundas reformas en las condiciones económicas, sociales y políticas actuales están afectando gravemente el alcance de los derechos civiles, sociales y políticos de la ciudadanía. Un concepto, el de ciudadanía, que es atravesado por las lógicas neoliberales de producción del espacio público así como por la lógica histórica Derecho- Deber-Estado. Pero este mismo concepto de diudadanía puede ser analizado desde tres novedosos aspectos teórico…
Occupying the #Hotelmadrid: A Laboratory for Urban Resistance
Occupied the night after the worldwide mobilisation of 15 October 2011, the #hotelmadrid was an intensive, 50-day-long political experiment that turned an abandoned hotel in the heart of the Spanish capital into a radical political space and the perceived node of the indignados movement. The squatting of the hotel accomplishes key demands related to 'real democracy' and the re-appropriation of public space as a political space with claims for the…
Gentrificación y resistencia en las ciudades latinoamericanas El ejemplo de Santiago de Chile
Este artículo discute las modalidades mediante las cuales es posible aplicar el término "gentrificación" en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Para ello, se defiende en primer lugar la necesidad de disociar el término, en un ejercicio crítico, de los debates tradicionales del mundo anglosajón de los cuales procede. A raíz de ese proceso dialéctico, se propone su aplicación en dos dimensiones para las cuales parece tener una especial relevancia: la ge…
Politiche di gentrification nel centro storico di Madrid: Creatività, Produzione Culturale E Commercio Al Dettaglio
L’implementazione di politiche selettive e di strategie di partnership tra settore pubblico e privato ha trasformato radicalmente la composizione sociale nel centro storico di Madrid. Puntando sulla creativita, la produzione culturale e il commercio al dettaglio quali fattori chiave per attrarre nuovi stili di vita, il centro della citta e stato riconvertito in uno spazio altamente commercializzato e segregato. In questo articolo, l’autore esamin…
Gentrificación en España y América Latina: Un diálogo crítico
Las principales transformaciones sociales y polticas, as como la implementacin de las polticas urbanas neoliberales han alterado profundamente la estructuracin de las ciudades en Espaa y Amrica Latina. Entre sus consecuencias destaca la reconquista de los centros urbanos por las clases acomodadas, que conlleva la expulsin de los hogares con menores ingresos, un fenmeno generalmente abordado mediante el trmino de gentrifi cacin. Hasta el momento y…
Gentrification in Spain and Latin America - a Critical Dialogue
Major social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in Spain and Latin America. One key consequence is the recapture of city centres by wealthy tenants and the eviction of poorer households, a phenomenon usually designated by the term gentrification. In comparison to the comprehensive documentation of gentrification in the Anglophone …
Gentrificación, desplazamiento, desposesión: Procesos urbanos claves en América Latina
Este artículo aporta una comprensión pormenorizada de los procesos urbanos claves que se han ido perpetuando en las ciudades latinoamericanas durante los primeros tres lustros del siglo XXI y que consisten en la reconquista de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales por parte del capital inmobiliario. Esta metamorfosis de la ciudad consolidada se ha manifestado a partir del uso habitual de tres términos centrales: gentrificación, desplazamiento y de…
Presentación del dossier. La ciudad del siglo XXI: Políticas públicas urbanas, desplazamientos y contestaciones
Introduction to dossier "Twenty-First century cities: Urban public policy, displacement and contestation
Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes
London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate l…
Gentrification in Latin America: Addressing the politics and geographies of displacement
In this article, we develop a contextual framing for the analysis of the social, economic and political transformations that have altered Latin American cities since the turn of the century, especially by displacing deprived households from the central city. We de-centre research on gentrification through the territorial and linguistic lens of Latin America, epitomising four simultaneously paradigmatic, but diverging and diverse gentrification sc…
Peripheral urbanisation in Mexico City. A comparative analysis of uneven social and material geographies in low-income housing estates
Who Loses and Who Wins in a Housing Crisis? Lessons From Spain and Greece for a Nuanced Understanding of Dispossession
The emerging postcrisis geographies in Southern Europe are intrinsically related to debt and dispossession. In Spain, mortgage homeownership and indebtedness led to housing dispossessions, while in Greece, skyrocketing private indebtedness is eventually arranged through housing foreclosures. Building upon the notion of accumulation by dispossession, i.e., on the way capital accumulates wealth in the era of neoliberal globalization, this article e…
Megacity
A megacity is typically defined as a metropolitan area with a population that exceeds 10 million inhabitants. The sheer size of megacities implicates administrative, political, economic, social, and environmental challenges, which have required specific attention from urban planners, architects, and engineers. However, the importance of megacities in an increasingly urbanized world goes beyond the simple numeric dimension. They also crystallize p…
Neighborhood Change
Neighborhood change addresses the dynamics of the physical, social, and demographic composition of specific places and spaces with symbolic cohesion in the city. Understanding this transformation requires a theoretical framework that includes both the agency of individual and institutional actors and the structural power arising from urban capital accumulation. Hence, neighborhood change exemplifies the social and spatial injustices of contempora…
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism refers to the contemporary transformation of capitalism. While claiming to extend laissez‐faire economic principles such as free markets and unhampered trade, neoliberalism essentially seeks state support and intervention for enhancing capital circulation. Prospering from the dismantling of the welfare state and the privatization of public assets, it asks for deregulation and reregulation policies that allow higher revenues for the …
Tracing the socio-spatial logics of transnational landlords’ real estate investment: Blackstone in Madrid
The rapid internationalisation of the Spanish property market has triggered debates about the main characteristics of emerging post-crisis urban dynamics. Financial and urban policy reforms have shaped a model depicted by incessant rent increases and displacements. Echoing these concerns, this article addresses two interconnected objectives about the way policy restructuring encouraged transnational investments into Spanish real estate and the co…
Vivienda social en Ecuador: Violencias y contestaciones en la producción progresista de periferias urbanas
Social housing production was one of the emblems of the Ecuadorian policy of the "Citizen Revolution" chaired by Rafael Correa for 10 years. From the case of Ecuador, it is analyzed how progressive governments applied policies in the field of social housing and urban development. This article tracks the scales of application these social policies had regarding neoliberalism, from the point of view of the violence and responses that the process pr…
Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook
Transnational gentrifications have been occurring at the crossroads of capital investment fuelled to satisfy the remarkable increase of so-called leisure-oriented mobilities. Such mobilities, however, cause disruptive social, spatial and economic transformations of urban and rural landscapes across the globe. Consequently, transnational gentrifications may be considered a crucial testimonial of economic shifts, during the 2008–2020 period of accu…
Ecuadorian housing resettlements five years after the 2016 earthquake: A critical analysis
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