DISCOURSES ON SPAIN’S HOUSING CRISIS: A TYPOLOGICAL PROPOSAL
DISCOURSES ON SPAIN’S HOUSING CRISIS: A TYPOLOGICAL PROPOSAL
Author(s): Estefanía Calo, Raimundo Otero-Enríquez, Alberto Rodríguez-BarcónSubject(s): Political economy, Rural and urban sociology, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Editura Universitară
Keywords: housing; crisis; discourses; Spain;
Summary/Abstract: The recent economic crisis has had serious consequences on the housing system, making it necessary to rethink housing in our society from a multidisciplinary and multi-methodological point of view. Purely quantitative studies are insufficient to analyse the structural and social aspects of housing: it is necessary to define concepts, extent approaches and to understand that residential studies should also resort to qualitative analyses to achieve a further understanding of the situation. This paper is based on the analysis of 35 focused interviews about Spain’s housing crisis. The results show that there are only two discursive types: a critical discourse and a conservative discourse. In the dialectical confrontation of both views, some key factors for understanding the housing market are left out, which may lead to a new crisis scenario.
Journal: Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis
- Issue Year: 13/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 77-91
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English