Javier Gil

Javier Gil
National University of Distance Education | UNED

Doctor of Sociology
Researcher at the Department of Sociology II: Social Structure.

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Introduction
Researcher at the Department of Sociology II: Social Structure and member of Critical Urban Studies Research Group (GECU) at UNED. I lead the project "Generation Rent: Socio-economic and political impacts of the changes in the housing system in Spain after the 2008 crisis" (funded by the Ministry of Universities and the European Union-NextGenerationUE).

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Publications (22)
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This paper analyses how tenants’ organizations approach the state for “post-neoliberal housing policy” that challenges decades of neoliberal housing governance. It introduces the concept of “counter-hegemonic legislative strategies” to illustrate how tenants’ movements in Spain have achieved this policy shift by influencing legislative changes. In...
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In contemporary urban areas, a growing 'generation rent' is finding shelter in expensive and precarious private rental housing. Tenant organisations and legislative initiatives have been pushing to improve housing conditions for renters, yet have been met with strong resistance. Intense policy and academic debates have ensued. This paper delves int...
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Impoverished and working-class migrant women have been the hardest hit and most exploited people during both the real estate-financial accumulation cycle and the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Spain. Since 2009, these women have also been the key actors in outstanding civil disobedience to the neoliberal financial rule through their engagement in...
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This paper examines the physical limits but paradoxically symbolic expansion of the Airbnb model beyond the the touristified historical center of Madrid. We move to the margins of the city and analyzed every host ad and guest comment in the Villaverde district, characterized as a former industrial working-class neighborhood also welcoming various w...
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El monográfico que hemos coordinado y que aquí presentamos espera ser una pequeña pero necesaria contribución al estudio y comprensión de la plataformización urbana. Nuestro objetivo ha sido observar cómo el capitalismo de plataforma está transformando las ciudades, las formas del trabajo y los estilos de vidas urbanos de forma desigual y asimétric...
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Converting residential housing into short-term rentals (STRs), through platforms such as Airbnb, has become a very profitable business, and a tourist-led rentier class has been formed in connection with this activity. However, the pandemic stalled this process and STRs began to be listed on residential rental platforms. Our paper questions whether...
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Desde sus inicios en 2009, la Plataforma de Afectadas por la Hipoteca (PAH) constituyó una extraordinaria respuesta social a algunas de las consecuencias más dramáticas de la crisis financiera global de 2008: desempleo, ejecuciones hipotecarias, financiarización de la vivienda y desahucios. Este movimiento social fue ampliamente cubierto por los me...
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The Spanish real estate and its ‘sea and sun’ tourism model, were profoundly disrupted during the Great Recession of 2008–2014 As a result, hedge funds and their speculative operations have favoured an intense process of urban touristification in the largest Spanish cities, especially over the past ten years. The aim of thispaper is to examine how...
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Spain was one of the most severely hit countries by the 2008 global financial crisis. More than ten years after, the belated economic recovery has hardly changed the roots of that crisis, especially the financialization of the real estate sector. Remarkably, from 2009 to the present, several grassroots struggles have questioned those roots and dema...
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Since the 2008 economic recession, state intervention in the real estate sector has strengthened. This article explains how housing financialization was reignited in Spain following key policy reforms in 2013. We argue that Spanish authorities managed to strategically recreate a finance-friendly environment to attract global investors. They combine...
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El presente artículo analiza las formas de trabajo y de modos de producción que configuran las plataformas digitales. Se plantea que en estas pueden emerger distintas formas de trabajo, pero que todas ellas responden a las transformaciones del neoliberalismo contemporáneo. Las formas en las que se dan sus configuraciones y las de sus procesos produ...
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Since its inception in 2009, the housing movement in Spain, led by the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), has confronted a devastating wave of housing foreclosures and evictions. Remarkably, the PAH has enjoyed wide coverage in the mass media. Among the latter, numerous fiction and non-fiction films have portrayed home evictions and t...
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Este artículo analiza el modelo de hospedaje que ha configurado Airbnb en la ciudad de Valencia. Se plantea que las plataformas digitales denominadas de economía colaborativa, pueden impulsar nuevos modelos de hospedaje que conllevan una serie de efectos positivos; o por el contrario, pueden contribuir a la turistificación urbana. El presente estud...
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‘Claudia’ is neither a real name nor an owner who puts a room at the service of the collaborative economy. It is a pseudonym used by a transnational company which manages short-rentals apartments: 211 Airbnb listings in Madrid, 138 of which are in the city centre. This paper's main arguments are based on the fact that Madrid city centre is experien...
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Turistificación global. Esta enunciación se ha convertido en una de las piezas imprescindibles del diagnóstico del mundo actual. El turismo, lejos de ser una realidad anecdótica, está cada vez más presente en todas partes. Hoy el turismo moldea nuestras sociedades, se ha convertido en uno de los principales agentes de la globalización, a la par de...
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Récord tras récord, 2018 rompe nuevas barreras en términos turísticos. Según la Organización Mundial del Turismo (OMT, 2018), en 2017 se han contado 1.323 millones de turistas a nivel global. El Sur de Europa y América Latina han registrado, respectivamente, 266,2 millones y 36,7 millones de turistas internacionales. El turismo es una máquina en co...
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La reciente y veloz expansión de la turistificación ofrece algunos factores críticos que han alimentado la indignación vecinal y la resistencia local dentro de la 'ciudad turistística'. Estas protestas están muy centradas en los impactos negativos de la turistificación en el mercado inmobiliario local, en la construcción de la ciudad para el monocu...

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