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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."


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