E-raamat: Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People: Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain

This book is packed with an excellent blend of theory and empirical evidence, presented with eloquence, power, and grace. The unique configuration of subprime lending and debt-law disciplinepredatory capital with Spanish characteristicscompletely transforms the social experience of space and time, altering the calculus of life, death, and capital. With a potent blend of Marxian political economy, poststructural, feminist, and postcolonial perspectives, Garcia-Lamarca's book will contribute to ongoing struggles to understand and challenge the relentless capitalization of the use-values of daily life into the speculative exchange values of capital accumulation. -- Elvin Wyly * author of The Evolving State of Gentrification * It is a compelling read, using the accounts and experiences of debtors to bring complex theory to life, while giving the reader a clear understanding of the violence of debt-fueled capital accumulation. -- Christopher Harker * author of Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine * "Garcķa-Lamarca has opened up a line of inquiry and interdisciplinary research deeply relevant to present social justice movements and scholarship." -- Isabel Gutiérrez Sįnchez * Urban Studies * Provide[ s] not only glimmers of hope but concrete collective ways out of relentless despair -- ALLISON LANG and JAVIER AUYERO * Public Books *