Ismael Yrigoy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 967634 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ismael Yrigoy |
| PRENOMES | Ismael |
| SOBRENOME | Yrigoy |
| ASSINATURA | YRIGOY I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3953-4152 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The mid-term rental turn
Mid-term rentals (MTRs) have recently become a significant housing segment in today's contested residential landscapes. They occupy a growing market niche for landlords seeking to avoid new regulations in the long-term and short-term rental sectors while catering to mobile urban populations, including digital nomads, expats and students. The intermediation of digital rental platforms has enabled this rapid development. Using a dataset from Ideali…
El capitalismo de plataforma en la ciudad
El presente monográfico es el resultado de las investigaciones colectivas realizadas en el marco de dos proyectos, LIKEALOCAL: efectos socioespaciales de Airbnb. Turismo y transformación en 4 ciudades de España - RTI2018-093479-A-I00 (2019-2021) y ONDEMANDCITY: Capitalismo de plataforma, trabajadores digitales y tecnificación de la vida cotidiana en la ciudad contemporánea - PID2021-122482OB-I00 (2022-2025). Los artículos de este número especial …
Unpacking the unequal privileges within transnational lifestyle relocation
Lifestyle relocation is a highly privileged form of mobility. However, the extent of such privilege needs to be addressed theoretically and empirically in countries such as Spain where lifestyle migration is rising. This article dissects the extent of such privilege by analyzing the economic advantages and challenges that different social groups have when acquiring properties for lifestyle reasons. By lifestyle reasons we understand here a mix of…
Unpacking Capital Switching
Harvey's (1978) switching theory has been widely used to theorize investments in the built environment. Crucially, in switching theory no distinction has been made between investments in the construction of the newly built environment and investments into the existing built environment. The distinction between these two types of switching is key to unveiling the relations between how value is produced, rents are extracted and interest payments ar…
Co-opting overtourism
Many tourism destinations are facing overtourism situations, where the increase in visitors negatively impacts on residents' life. Even if the perceptions of overtourism amongst residents have been analysed, the use of that perception by other key stakeholders remains largely unexplored. The discursive co-optation of the concept of overtourism amongst supply-side stakeholders, governmental and civil society stakeholders, provide a unique insight …
Strengthening the political economy of tourism
The political economy of tourism has historically been a marginalized paradigm within tourism studies. If the political economy of tourism is to gain prominence within tourism studies and within the broader political economy literature, it has to engage with debates that are key within political economy, such as discussions the origins of corporate profits, land rents, and the nature of tourism commodities and revenues. Setting up a theoretical a…
The impact of Covid-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain
The Spanish real estate and its ‘sea and sun’ tourism model, were profoundly disrupted during the Great Recession of 2008–2014 As a result, hedge funds and their speculative operations have favoured an intense process of urban touristification in the largest Spanish cities, especially over the past ten years. The aim of this paper is to examine how the COVID-19 crisis has triggered shifts in the supply of short-term rentals and the type of demand…
Why Do Middle‐Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short‐Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital
Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how the self‐ascription of short‐term rental (STR) suppliers to the middle‐class idea boosts exploitation and accumulation. Housing income, and recently that originating in STRs, has been used to maintain the symbolic and material s…
Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities
Papers in this special issue offer a wide range of political economy and sociological perspectives to explain the development and impacts of short-term rentals (STRs) in European cities. Empirically, they provide insights regarding STR providers, socio-spatial impacts, and regulation. Authors reveal the professionalization of the sector vis-à-vis the connection between STRs and the wider financialization of housing. STRs are predominantly supplie…
El impacto del alquiler turístico sobre el alquiler residencial
Tomando como caso de estudio el casco histórico de Palma, este artículo demuestra que los precios del alquiler residencial han aumentado como consecuencia de la escasez de oferta de alquiler residencial, escasez originada en un masivo trasvase de viviendas desde un uso residencial al turístico. Dicho trasvase se ha producido porque en principio, se pueden aumentar las rentas que se extraen de una vivienda si ésta se transforma de alquiler residen…
The Political Economy of Rental Housing in Spain
This paper analyses how the exploitation of tenants in Spain is boosting income for banks, hedge funds and pension funds. It does so by tracing the origins of the money invested in a Tres Cantos housing project in Madrid. The paper makes the following claims: First, the exploitation taking place in households -referred in this paper as secondary- is increasingly related to worker exploitation, and thus this particular type of exploitation is incr…
The Role of Regulations in the Spanish Housing Dispossession Crisis
This paper explores the role of regulations and economic policies implemented in post‐crisis Spain in boosting a housing dispossession crisis. The article first claims that the post‐2008 crisis has implied shifts in the mechanisms of rent extraction from housing in Spain. Second, it is argued that those shifts in rent extraction have been fuelled by the post‐crisis economic policies and regulatory frameworks implemented since 2008. Third, it is c…
Beyond parasitism
Shifting Shores of the Anthropocene
Human occupation of the littoral has dramatically increased in the modern era, leading to major ecological and morphological changes of the coastal zone that are central to current debates on the Anthropocene. While the existing interpretations tend to represent these changes in terms of human impact and despoliation, we argue that exclusive insistence on this aspect risks obfuscating the inherent dynamism and persistent instability of coastal en…
Rent gap reloaded
In light of the advent of Airbnb, rent gap theory can be helpful for understanding how tourist rentals affect residential rental housing. It is argued that on those properties currently rented to residents, rental payments are not only ‘actual ground rent’, but also ‘potential ground rent’. The shift from a residential to a touristic use of rental housing thereby creates a potential ground rent. Taking as a case study the Palma Old Quarter in Mal…
Transforming non-performing loans into re-performing loans
Fixing creditor-debtors’ tensions through labor devaluation. Insights from the Spanish hotel market
State-Led Financial Regulation and Representations of Spatial Fixity
This article offers a bottom-up contribution to the fixity-motion literature. It aims to unravel the apparent contradiction of real estate spatial fixity in Spain, which is portrayed both as a barrier to accumulation and as a unique source of investment by different capitalist actors. Empirically, it describes the shifts in real estate ownership and changes in profit-making strategies that have taken place across the real estate sector during the…
Airbnb en Menorca
Este artículo estudia si la irrupción de Airbnb en Menorca supone una nueva tipología de gentrificación turística. El objetivo es analizar desde una perspectiva geográfica y social el fenómeno de los alquileres turísticos en dicha isla. Se cartografía la distribución de las viviendas turísticas ofertadas en Airbnb y se realiza un análisis de la tipología de huéspedes que alquilan sus viviendas. Se estudia también el impacto de la vivienda turísti…
Financialization of hotel corporations in Spain
One of the cutting-edge topics being currently debated in social sciences is the impact of financialization on corporations and on different geographical contexts. Surprisingly enough, there have been very few studies that have explicitly dealt with this issue within tourism studies. In this paper, the issue of financialization within tourism is addressed through an analysis of hotel corporations. Taking a case-study approach, it is argued that S…
The City of Varadero (Cuba) and the Urban Construction of a Tourist Enclave
The urban and territorial changes caused by tourism are well-studied topics in contemporary scientific literature. This article uses an integrative approach that lies between the scientific traditions in urban geography and the geography of tourism to present a case study of a socialist city. Tourism is a strategic economic activity in Cuba, and the country’s most popular sun and sand tourist destination is Varadero. At first consideration, its t…
The production of tourist spaces as a spatial fix
Between the 1950s and 1970s, a massive tourism and real-estate boom took place in coastal Spain and, as a result, thousands of tourist spots appeared across the country. This paper aims to explain the production of those spots in the context of the broader dynamics of capital accumulation, thus following a political economy approach. The work starts with a brief outline of the concept of ‘spatial fix’ and the role of tourism within it. Then the p…
Rent gap reloaded
In light of the advent of Airbnb, rent gap theory can be helpful for understanding how tourist rentals affect residential rental housing. It is argued that on those properties currently rented to residents, rental payments are not only ‘actual ground rent’, but also ‘potential ground rent’. The shift from a residential to a touristic use of rental housing thereby creates a potential ground rent. Taking as a case study the Palma Old Quarter in Mal…
Financialization of hotel corporations in Spain
One of the cutting-edge topics being currently debated in social sciences is the impact of financialization on corporations and on different geographical contexts. Surprisingly enough, there have been very few studies that have explicitly dealt with this issue within tourism studies. In this paper, the issue of financialization within tourism is addressed through an analysis of hotel corporations. Taking a case-study approach, it is argued that S…
The production of tourist spaces as a spatial fix
Between the 1950s and 1970s, a massive tourism and real-estate boom took place in coastal Spain and, as a result, thousands of tourist spots appeared across the country. This paper aims to explain the production of those spots in the context of the broader dynamics of capital accumulation, thus following a political economy approach. The work starts with a brief outline of the concept of ‘spatial fix’ and the role of tourism within it. Then the p…
Strengthening the political economy of tourism
The political economy of tourism has historically been a marginalized paradigm within tourism studies. If the political economy of tourism is to gain prominence within tourism studies and within the broader political economy literature, it has to engage with debates that are key within political economy, such as discussions the origins of corporate profits, land rents, and the nature of tourism commodities and revenues. Setting up a theoretical a…
The Political Economy of Rental Housing in Spain
This paper analyses how the exploitation of tenants in Spain is boosting income for banks, hedge funds and pension funds. It does so by tracing the origins of the money invested in a Tres Cantos housing project in Madrid. The paper makes the following claims: First, the exploitation taking place in households -referred in this paper as secondary- is increasingly related to worker exploitation, and thus this particular type of exploitation is incr…
State-Led Financial Regulation and Representations of Spatial Fixity
This article offers a bottom-up contribution to the fixity-motion literature. It aims to unravel the apparent contradiction of real estate spatial fixity in Spain, which is portrayed both as a barrier to accumulation and as a unique source of investment by different capitalist actors. Empirically, it describes the shifts in real estate ownership and changes in profit-making strategies that have taken place across the real estate sector during the…
Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities
Papers in this special issue offer a wide range of political economy and sociological perspectives to explain the development and impacts of short-term rentals (STRs) in European cities. Empirically, they provide insights regarding STR providers, socio-spatial impacts, and regulation. Authors reveal the professionalization of the sector vis-à-vis the connection between STRs and the wider financialization of housing. STRs are predominantly supplie…
Why Do Middle‐Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short‐Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital
Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how the self‐ascription of short‐term rental (STR) suppliers to the middle‐class idea boosts exploitation and accumulation. Housing income, and recently that originating in STRs, has been used to maintain the symbolic and material s…
Co-opting overtourism
Many tourism destinations are facing overtourism situations, where the increase in visitors negatively impacts on residents' life. Even if the perceptions of overtourism amongst residents have been analysed, the use of that perception by other key stakeholders remains largely unexplored. The discursive co-optation of the concept of overtourism amongst supply-side stakeholders, governmental and civil society stakeholders, provide a unique insight …
Transforming non-performing loans into re-performing loans
The City of Varadero (Cuba) and the Urban Construction of a Tourist Enclave
The urban and territorial changes caused by tourism are well-studied topics in contemporary scientific literature. This article uses an integrative approach that lies between the scientific traditions in urban geography and the geography of tourism to present a case study of a socialist city. Tourism is a strategic economic activity in Cuba, and the country’s most popular sun and sand tourist destination is Varadero. At first consideration, its t…
The Role of Regulations in the Spanish Housing Dispossession Crisis
This paper explores the role of regulations and economic policies implemented in post‐crisis Spain in boosting a housing dispossession crisis. The article first claims that the post‐2008 crisis has implied shifts in the mechanisms of rent extraction from housing in Spain. Second, it is argued that those shifts in rent extraction have been fuelled by the post‐crisis economic policies and regulatory frameworks implemented since 2008. Third, it is c…
Beyond parasitism
Fixing creditor-debtors’ tensions through labor devaluation. Insights from the Spanish hotel market
Unpacking Capital Switching
Harvey's (1978) switching theory has been widely used to theorize investments in the built environment. Crucially, in switching theory no distinction has been made between investments in the construction of the newly built environment and investments into the existing built environment. The distinction between these two types of switching is key to unveiling the relations between how value is produced, rents are extracted and interest payments ar…
The impact of Covid-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain
The Spanish real estate and its ‘sea and sun’ tourism model, were profoundly disrupted during the Great Recession of 2008–2014 As a result, hedge funds and their speculative operations have favoured an intense process of urban touristification in the largest Spanish cities, especially over the past ten years. The aim of this paper is to examine how the COVID-19 crisis has triggered shifts in the supply of short-term rentals and the type of demand…
Shifting Shores of the Anthropocene
Human occupation of the littoral has dramatically increased in the modern era, leading to major ecological and morphological changes of the coastal zone that are central to current debates on the Anthropocene. While the existing interpretations tend to represent these changes in terms of human impact and despoliation, we argue that exclusive insistence on this aspect risks obfuscating the inherent dynamism and persistent instability of coastal en…
The City of Varadero (Cuba) and the Urban Construction of a Tourist Enclave
The urban and territorial changes caused by tourism are well-studied topics in contemporary scientific literature. This article uses an integrative approach that lies between the scientific traditions in urban geography and the geography of tourism to present a case study of a socialist city. Tourism is a strategic economic activity in Cuba, and the country’s most popular sun and sand tourist destination is Varadero. At first consideration, its t…
The production of tourist spaces as a spatial fix
Between the 1950s and 1970s, a massive tourism and real-estate boom took place in coastal Spain and, as a result, thousands of tourist spots appeared across the country. This paper aims to explain the production of those spots in the context of the broader dynamics of capital accumulation, thus following a political economy approach. The work starts with a brief outline of the concept of ‘spatial fix’ and the role of tourism within it. Then the p…
Financialization of hotel corporations in Spain
One of the cutting-edge topics being currently debated in social sciences is the impact of financialization on corporations and on different geographical contexts. Surprisingly enough, there have been very few studies that have explicitly dealt with this issue within tourism studies. In this paper, the issue of financialization within tourism is addressed through an analysis of hotel corporations. Taking a case-study approach, it is argued that S…
Airbnb en Menorca
Este artículo estudia si la irrupción de Airbnb en Menorca supone una nueva tipología de gentrificación turística. El objetivo es analizar desde una perspectiva geográfica y social el fenómeno de los alquileres turísticos en dicha isla. Se cartografía la distribución de las viviendas turísticas ofertadas en Airbnb y se realiza un análisis de la tipología de huéspedes que alquilan sus viviendas. Se estudia también el impacto de la vivienda turísti…
Transforming non-performing loans into re-performing loans
Fixing creditor-debtors’ tensions through labor devaluation. Insights from the Spanish hotel market
State-Led Financial Regulation and Representations of Spatial Fixity
This article offers a bottom-up contribution to the fixity-motion literature. It aims to unravel the apparent contradiction of real estate spatial fixity in Spain, which is portrayed both as a barrier to accumulation and as a unique source of investment by different capitalist actors. Empirically, it describes the shifts in real estate ownership and changes in profit-making strategies that have taken place across the real estate sector during the…
Shifting Shores of the Anthropocene
Human occupation of the littoral has dramatically increased in the modern era, leading to major ecological and morphological changes of the coastal zone that are central to current debates on the Anthropocene. While the existing interpretations tend to represent these changes in terms of human impact and despoliation, we argue that exclusive insistence on this aspect risks obfuscating the inherent dynamism and persistent instability of coastal en…
Rent gap reloaded
In light of the advent of Airbnb, rent gap theory can be helpful for understanding how tourist rentals affect residential rental housing. It is argued that on those properties currently rented to residents, rental payments are not only ‘actual ground rent’, but also ‘potential ground rent’. The shift from a residential to a touristic use of rental housing thereby creates a potential ground rent. Taking as a case study the Palma Old Quarter in Mal…
El impacto del alquiler turístico sobre el alquiler residencial
Tomando como caso de estudio el casco histórico de Palma, este artículo demuestra que los precios del alquiler residencial han aumentado como consecuencia de la escasez de oferta de alquiler residencial, escasez originada en un masivo trasvase de viviendas desde un uso residencial al turístico. Dicho trasvase se ha producido porque en principio, se pueden aumentar las rentas que se extraen de una vivienda si ésta se transforma de alquiler residen…
The Political Economy of Rental Housing in Spain
This paper analyses how the exploitation of tenants in Spain is boosting income for banks, hedge funds and pension funds. It does so by tracing the origins of the money invested in a Tres Cantos housing project in Madrid. The paper makes the following claims: First, the exploitation taking place in households -referred in this paper as secondary- is increasingly related to worker exploitation, and thus this particular type of exploitation is incr…
The Role of Regulations in the Spanish Housing Dispossession Crisis
This paper explores the role of regulations and economic policies implemented in post‐crisis Spain in boosting a housing dispossession crisis. The article first claims that the post‐2008 crisis has implied shifts in the mechanisms of rent extraction from housing in Spain. Second, it is argued that those shifts in rent extraction have been fuelled by the post‐crisis economic policies and regulatory frameworks implemented since 2008. Third, it is c…
Beyond parasitism
Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities
Papers in this special issue offer a wide range of political economy and sociological perspectives to explain the development and impacts of short-term rentals (STRs) in European cities. Empirically, they provide insights regarding STR providers, socio-spatial impacts, and regulation. Authors reveal the professionalization of the sector vis-à-vis the connection between STRs and the wider financialization of housing. STRs are predominantly supplie…
The impact of Covid-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain
The Spanish real estate and its ‘sea and sun’ tourism model, were profoundly disrupted during the Great Recession of 2008–2014 As a result, hedge funds and their speculative operations have favoured an intense process of urban touristification in the largest Spanish cities, especially over the past ten years. The aim of this paper is to examine how the COVID-19 crisis has triggered shifts in the supply of short-term rentals and the type of demand…
Why Do Middle‐Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short‐Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital
Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how the self‐ascription of short‐term rental (STR) suppliers to the middle‐class idea boosts exploitation and accumulation. Housing income, and recently that originating in STRs, has been used to maintain the symbolic and material s…
Unpacking the unequal privileges within transnational lifestyle relocation
Lifestyle relocation is a highly privileged form of mobility. However, the extent of such privilege needs to be addressed theoretically and empirically in countries such as Spain where lifestyle migration is rising. This article dissects the extent of such privilege by analyzing the economic advantages and challenges that different social groups have when acquiring properties for lifestyle reasons. By lifestyle reasons we understand here a mix of…
Unpacking Capital Switching
Harvey's (1978) switching theory has been widely used to theorize investments in the built environment. Crucially, in switching theory no distinction has been made between investments in the construction of the newly built environment and investments into the existing built environment. The distinction between these two types of switching is key to unveiling the relations between how value is produced, rents are extracted and interest payments ar…
Co-opting overtourism
Many tourism destinations are facing overtourism situations, where the increase in visitors negatively impacts on residents' life. Even if the perceptions of overtourism amongst residents have been analysed, the use of that perception by other key stakeholders remains largely unexplored. The discursive co-optation of the concept of overtourism amongst supply-side stakeholders, governmental and civil society stakeholders, provide a unique insight …
Strengthening the political economy of tourism
The political economy of tourism has historically been a marginalized paradigm within tourism studies. If the political economy of tourism is to gain prominence within tourism studies and within the broader political economy literature, it has to engage with debates that are key within political economy, such as discussions the origins of corporate profits, land rents, and the nature of tourism commodities and revenues. Setting up a theoretical a…
El capitalismo de plataforma en la ciudad
El presente monográfico es el resultado de las investigaciones colectivas realizadas en el marco de dos proyectos, LIKEALOCAL: efectos socioespaciales de Airbnb. Turismo y transformación en 4 ciudades de España - RTI2018-093479-A-I00 (2019-2021) y ONDEMANDCITY: Capitalismo de plataforma, trabajadores digitales y tecnificación de la vida cotidiana en la ciudad contemporánea - PID2021-122482OB-I00 (2022-2025). Los artículos de este número especial …
The mid-term rental turn
Mid-term rentals (MTRs) have recently become a significant housing segment in today's contested residential landscapes. They occupy a growing market niche for landlords seeking to avoid new regulations in the long-term and short-term rental sectors while catering to mobile urban populations, including digital nomads, expats and students. The intermediation of digital rental platforms has enabled this rapid development. Using a dataset from Ideali…
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