Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain's PAH Movement

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* Article: Redefining the Crisis/Redefining Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain's PAH Movement. By Cristina Flesher Fominaya.

URL = https://www.academia.edu/13438388/Redefining_the_Crisis_Redefining_Democracy_Mobilising_for_the_Right_to_Housing_in_Spains_PAH_Movement


Abstract

"European anti-austerity movements are challenging fundamental assumptions about the role of the market and the state. In Spain, the twin claims of the movements are a demand for ‘real democracy’ and an end to austerity measures resulting from the global financial crisis. I argue that these demands are intertwined. Using critical discourse analysis, I explore the Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages’ controversial escrache campaign to show how social movements actively resisting austerity measures transcend the specific issues around which they mobilise to contest hegemonic definitions of crisis and of democracy, laying the groundwork for the reconfiguration of Spain’s political landscape."