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State action and the movements of finance during the Spanish housing crisis: Alleviating or amplifying the social impacts of financialization?

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This paper addresses the entanglements, complicities and collisions between  Financialization processes and state action during the current housing crisis in Spain,  with a focus on Catalonia and the Barcelona area in the last decade. Departing from the  assumption that housing financialization has been a major driver of the crisis, state interventions, including housing policies and legal regulations imposed on financial and  real estate markets and on landlord-tenant relations, will be interpreted as modulators  that may either alleviate or amplify the impacts of financial dynamics on people’s access  to adequate housing. Drawing on the cases of several legal reforms, we will illustrate  variegated attitudes towards financial extraction adopted by different state agencies. It  will be thus shown how, in the rare cases where the state has tried to alleviate the social  harms derived from financial extraction, reforms have been superficial, have arrived late,  and have failed to reverse the structural drivers of the crisis. We will thus try to shed some  light into the nature of state action in the face of housing financialization, contending  that states should not be understood as outsides with respect to finance, as, to the contrary, they are part of fi nance’s very conditions of possibility.

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Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale

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Articles publicats en revistes (Antropologia Social)

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State action and the movements of finance during the Spanish housing crisis: Alleviating or amplifying the social impacts of financialization?