Spanish Spaces of Crisis : Cultural Responses to the Global 2008 Financial Crisis in Spain (2007-2017) (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures)

Usoz de la Fuente, Maite

Liverpool University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781805965411

Full Description

The global financial crisis of 2008 was felt particularly acutely in Spain, and its consequences went well beyond the economic realm. The Spanish state's inability to protect its citizens from its consequences led to a questioning of the country's political framework, as well as to a rearticulation of its cultural field. In this pioneering study, Maite Usoz de la Fuente explores how a series of cultural texts (several novels, literary journalism, photographic projects and one graphic novel) published in the decade 2007-2017 question the sustainability - environmental, communal, individual - of the hegemonic extractive, growth-oriented capitalist model. Taking space as a thematic and theoretical anchor, the author offers novel (and, in some cases, first) readings of a selection of texts, focussing on how their representations (and, in some cases, redefinitions) of landscape, home and body invite readers to question the feasibility and desirability of an economic growth paradigm dependent on the exploitation of the environment and the precarisation of human lives.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Crisis and space: the cultural field in post-austerity Spain

Chapter 1. Landscape

Chapter 2. Home loss

Chapter 3. Body

Coda: Reimagining space, kinship and belonging in post-recession, post-pandemic Spain

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