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Spanish Spaces of Crisis: Cultural Responses to the Global 2008 Financial Crisis in Spain (2007-2017)

Spanish Spaces of Crisis: Cultural Responses to the Global 2008 Financial Crisis in Spain (2007-2017)

Usoz de la Fuente, Maite

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Book 36

EconomicsGeneral World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1805965417
ISBN13: 9781805965411
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jun 5 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 2007-17 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.

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