Actually, I am studying my PhD studies on the program Culture and Society, in the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. My research focuses on the Spanish Mortgage Affected-Citizens Platform of Barcelona (PAH Barcelona), which is a social movement that has been fighting against the massive processes of evictions occurred in Spain since 2009.
I analyze how the Platform reframe discourses around debt, and how these discourses have been built and thought inside organizational commissions and different assemblies. My main objective is to show the relationship between these strategies and the impact that they have in the (re)definition of the mortgage debt as a social injustice and how these strategies have been adapted to new realities as the high increase of rents in Barcelona.
To achieve this goal, I focused the fieldwork to the observation of a state campaign, called Ley de Vivienda de la PAH - The Housing Law of PAH. This campaign aims to change de state laws towards mortgage debts, processes of evictions, the regulation of rent prices, the social use of empty houses of banks and the energy poverty. For this research, I combine theories of value and debt with analysis of collective action and the framing of events.
Ley de Vivienda de la PAH
http://las5delapah.com
