Davies, Claire Joanna (2024) A study of the concept and genealogy of home ownership within Spain from 1950 to 2008 as represented within specific cultural artefacts. PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London.
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Abstract
This thesis uses an urban cultural studies approach to provide an account of the evolution of the concept of homeownership within Spain from the 1950s to 2008 as represented in specific films and novels of the period. Focusing on cultural objects that engage with contemporary developments in the Spanish housing situation, this thesis pursues the rise and continuation of an ideology of homeownership. Through the representations of homeownership studied, four themes are explored: 1. the commodification of the home as a desirable consumer product and the intervention by the State, both the Franco regime and subsequent democratic governments, to grow the Spanish middle-class and to encourage homeownership, 2. the manifestation of extreme behaviour in order to achieve the falsely constructed desire of home homeownership which has ultimately led to alienation, 3. the need for a home to provide ontological security, a refuge safe from the prying eyes of capitalist society and the State and 4. the use of home as a place of resistance or rebellion against the onslaught of capital accumulation or as a way to criticise and resist the neoliberalist governments and their capitalist policies. This work is the first to undertake a close reading of cinematic and literary texts from the latter half of twentieth century Spain through the prism of homeownership. It is hoped that this new branch of Hispanic cultural urban studies provides an insight into the significant issue of homeownership in Spain, particularly in relation to the hegemonic discourse that promoted it and its effects on the Spanish populace.
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| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Copyright Holders: | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author, who asserts his/her right to be known as such according to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. No dealing with the thesis contrary to the copyright or moral rights of the author is permitted. |
| Depositing User: | Acquisitions And Metadata |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2024 16:21 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2024 13:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53627 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18743/PUB.00053627 |
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