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1. 1. Rising up against the subordination of life in Barcelonès: an ethnography of the struggle of the afectadas for a future without debt chains

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Georgios Azis; [2016]
   Keywords : precariousness; subordination; life process; constellation of forces;

   Abstract : The collapse of the Spanish real-estate market in 2007-8, and the colossal destruction of jobs it provoked, put an abrupt end to a decade-long model of growth, which was based on the construction and tourism industries as its primary motors as well as on the massive indebtedness of the labouring masses. In the severe economic downturn that ensued, a social conflict appeared: on the one side, the many indebted people forming the movement of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) and, on the other side, the financial industry. READ MORE