Financial crisis and housing crisis
This line of research addresses the analysis of the complex interrelations between economic crises and housing-related difficulties. It investigates how the financial crisis impacts communities, affecting the availability, accessibility, and quality of housing.
This line examines the responses and adaptations of populations to housing scarcity and the associated economic tensions, as well as the social and cultural dynamics that emerge around housing in times of financial crisis.
The research aims to understand the experiences and strategies adopted by communities to face the challenges arising from the financial crisis and its impact on the residential sphere.
The following members of CRITS conduct research framed within this line of investigation:
- Irene Sabaté: debt and credit relations, anthropological perspectives on financialization
- Mikel Aramburu: working classes, property, and social reproduction
- Cristina Larrea: health and sanitation
- Raúl Márquez: land ownership
Diana Mata: diversity and coexistence in neighborhoods - Camila del Mármol, Ferran Estrada, Oriol Beltran, and Ismael Vaccaro: housing crisis and rural depopulation
Projects framed within this line of research:
Tensions between the right to housing and private property in leasehold relations. A socio-legal approach (TEVIPROP). PI: Irene Sabaté and Marco Aparicio (University of Girona).
The gender dimension of the housing crisis in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (2008-2021), PI: Irene Sabaté.
Popular conceptions of social justice in the face of the crisis and austerity policies (CONJUST). PI: Sílvia Bofill-Poch and Mikel Aramburu.
The Spanish home repossessions crisis as a case for the study of debt and credit relations. PI: Irene Sabaté.