The cultural politics of neoliberalism: housing financialization, transformations of work and institutional challenges in today’s Spain

Abstract

In this paper I aim to apply an immanent critique of capitalism to the recent societal evolution in Spain, where the chains of economic debt have tightened and quickly spread throughout differ-ent spheres of life, while at the same time the notion of political agency has grown. This cultural revolution has resulted in a surge in right-wing political parties and think-tanks promoting a notion of a state with no responsibility for the economic suffering of citizens or for the care for children, disabled and the elderly, while also excluding certain bodies based on race or religion.