Understanding Evictions. Financialization, corporate power and commodified rights

Resumen

The Great Recession that began in 2007 seems far from coming to an end despite the implementation of multiple exceptional policy measures. This permanent crisis has laid bare a previously hidden regime of permission which allows us to understand in more detail the conditions that created the crimes of the Spanish elite. In this context, the crimes of the powerful must be understood as a process that is indivisible from the financialization of the Spanish economy. Through the study of mortgages as a form of state-corporate crime, the article shows how the intertwined actions across corporations and the state have had damaging consequences through evictions.