Melissa García‐lamarca
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa García‐lamarca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | García‐lamarca |
| SIGNATURE | LAMARCA M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Geography School of Environment, Education and Development University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing
Urban insurgencies have spread across the globe like wildfire in recent years. The indignado plaza occupations in Spain are often cited as beacons of popular and widespread dissent. This article argues that urban insurgencies with the highest emancipatory potential in Spain today are found in the practices of the housing rights movement-the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH, or Platform for Mortgage-affected People)-that mainly entail …
Mortgaged lives’
The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges an intimate relationship between global financial markets, everyday life and human labour. Taking seriously the materiality of mortgage contracts as a means of forging new embodied practices of financialisation, we urge for the need to move beyond a policy- and macroeconomi…
Mortgaged lives’
The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges an intimate relationship between global financial markets, everyday life and human labour. Taking seriously the materiality of mortgage contracts as a means of forging new embodied practices of financialisation, we urge for the need to move beyond a policy- and macroeconomi…
From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing
Urban insurgencies have spread across the globe like wildfire in recent years. The indignado plaza occupations in Spain are often cited as beacons of popular and widespread dissent. This article argues that urban insurgencies with the highest emancipatory potential in Spain today are found in the practices of the housing rights movement-the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH, or Platform for Mortgage-affected People)-that mainly entail …
Mortgaged lives’
The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges an intimate relationship between global financial markets, everyday life and human labour. Taking seriously the materiality of mortgage contracts as a means of forging new embodied practices of financialisation, we urge for the need to move beyond a policy- and macroeconomi…
From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing
Urban insurgencies have spread across the globe like wildfire in recent years. The indignado plaza occupations in Spain are often cited as beacons of popular and widespread dissent. This article argues that urban insurgencies with the highest emancipatory potential in Spain today are found in the practices of the housing rights movement-the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH, or Platform for Mortgage-affected People)-that mainly entail …
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Biopower (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Debt (1 work) · Democracy (1 work)