The repertoire of housing contention: the birth of the Stay Put campaign in Barcelona

Guzmán, Jordi Bonshoms

doi:10.1080/02673037.2024.2317209

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“…We contend that social movements do not necessarily belong to the former or latter group but rather create hybrids across both. In some instances, like the well-studied tenant unions in Spain, social movements often start as more radical platforms contesting foreclosures or evictions before they eventually grow in size and significance, become institutionalized and change their activist repertoires from social actions to proposing, legalizing and enforcing housing policy and other regulations (Gil and Palomera 2024;González Guzmán 2024). In other cases, otherwise conventional non-profit housing associations or mission-oriented land community trusts stand out as radical social experiments.…”

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Social Movements against Housing Financialization: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Wijburg,

Waldron

2024

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Social Movements against Housing Financialization: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Wijburg,

Waldron

2024

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Can Tenants’ Unions Challenge Neoliberal Housing Governance? The Emergence of a New Movement in Spain and Its Impact on Post-neoliberal Housing Policy

Gil,

Palomera

2024

Housing, Theory and Society

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Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice

Bonshoms-Guzman

2024

Urban Studies

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In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, housing and tenant movements across many cities have emerged to contest the unfolding cycle of housing financialisation. In particular, tenant organising against corporate landlords has marked the dawn of a new urban politics of space. This article reflects on the political antagonism that the Sindicat de Llogateres (Tenants’ Union of Barcelona) has deployed against corporate landlords using the class composition analysis developed by the Italian-Marxist school of operaismo. I contend that compositional analysis offers a political understanding of the shifting dynamics of rentier capital (technical composition) and the emergence of new forms of tenant contestation (political composition). In Barcelona’s post-crisis urban laboratory, I argue that the concentration of properties in the hands of landowning corporations has shaped new organisational forms of tenant contention, introducing tactical innovations to the established repertoire of housing contention.

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The repertoire of housing contention: the birth of the Stay Put campaign in Barcelona

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Social Movements against Housing Financialization: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Social Movements against Housing Financialization: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Can Tenants’ Unions Challenge Neoliberal Housing Governance? The Emergence of a New Movement in Spain and Its Impact on Post-neoliberal Housing Policy

Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice

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