Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Mortgage Holders Platform 2: resisting the financialization of housing
This is the second in a series of blog posts on the Mortgage Holders Platform (Platforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, or PAH), a Spanish movement of people in danger of being evicted because they cannot pay their mortgages. In the first post we sketched out the context of financialization at the heart of the […]
Indignados: Re-Asserting the Human Right to Dream
“What if we started to practice the no longer proclaimed right of dreaming?” Eduardo Galeano This is the second article by Marta Sánchez written as part of a research project on the 15-M movement at the Center for Human Rights in Nuremberg. Filling the Vacancies of the System As I pointed out […]
Neoliberal Culture
In a recent article, ‘Time-Wars’, Mark Fisher illustrates the fallacy of yet another neoliberal faith: the belief that a reduction in social security – ‘red-tape social-democratic bureaucracy’ – would create a vigorous spirit of entrepreneurialism in cultural production. The effect, he argues, has actually been a dampening of culture in highly neoliberalized countries, like the UK […]
Indignados : austerity as a violation of human rights
“Human rights can reclaim their redemptive role in the hands and imagination of those who return them to the tradition of resistance and struggle” Costas Douzinas This is the first of two articles by Marta Sánchez written as part of a research project on the 15-M movement at the Center for Human Rights in Nuremberg. […]
The Mortgage Holders Platform: resisting the financialization of housing
This is the first in a series of posts on the Mortgage Holders Platform (Platforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, or PAH), a Spanish movement of people in danger of eviction. The movement has emerged in response to the repossession of the homes of those who cannot afford to pay their mortgages. The same banks […]
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