Javier Moreno Zacarés

Residential Capitalism

Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production in Modern Spain (1833-2023)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political economy, as well as those engaged in crossover fields such as housing studies, urban geography, or financial geography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781032079349
• ISBN-10: 1032079347
• Artikelnr.: 74980697

Autorenporträt

Javier Moreno Zacarés is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Housing Under Capitalism
1 Residential Capitalism: A Theoretical Introduction
Housing's Paradoxes
Capitalists and Rentiers
Hybrid Logics
What Is (Residential) Capitalism?
A Pre-History of Residential Capitalism
Mass Urbanisation
Capitalist Residential Production
Governing Residential Capitalism
Capital, Hegemony, and the State
Historicising Residential Strategies
Outline of the Book
2 Residential Accumulation in Capitalist Political Economies
Residential Accumulation: Between Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production
The Hybridity of Housing Provision
House Rents in the Capitalist Economy
Residential Social-Property Relations: Analysing Capitalist Housing
Provision
Production
Exchange
Finance
Reproduction
PART II: The Liberal Era, 1833-1939
3 Liberal Property and Its Discontents
The Formation of the Liberal State
Framing the Liberal Revolution
Imperial Decline
The Liberal City in an Uneven Capitalist Transition
A Pre-Capitalist Agriculture
Capitalist Production and Mass Urbanisation
The Urban Household
Pacifying the Urban Masses
Spatial Politics of the Liberal Oligarchy
Competing State Projects
Morbid Symptoms
4 The Contradictions of the Liberal City
The Construction of the Liberal City
The Creation of Absolute Private Property
The Rise of the Market-Dependent Rentier
The Capitalist Transition in the Building Trades
Repairing the Liberal City
Faulty Extensions: The Ensanches
Structural Failure: The Underdevelopment of Property Development
Foundational Problems: Towards a Social Liberalism
The Collapse of the Liberal City
The False Promise of Liberal Property
The Unravelling
PART III: Franco's Dictatorship, 1939-75
5 The Reconstruction of Urban Modernity
Political Anatomy of the Francoist State
The Roots of the Counter-Revolution
Bureaucratic Factionalism in the National Movement
Catch-Up Development and Accelerated Urbanisation
Post-War Autarky
Geopolitical Realignment and Technocratic Turn
The 'Spanish Economic Miracle'
Catholic Domestication
Domination and Unrest in the Francoist City
The Limits to Urban Hegemony
Death and Resurrection of Urban Unrest
6 The Property-Owning Autocracy
Falangist Designs
Orchestrate the City
Nurture the Developer
Euthanise the Landlord
Urbanise the Smallholder
Developmentalist Consolidation
Turf War in the Bureaucracy
An Urban State of Exception
The Professionalisation of the Capitalist Developer
Democratic Horizons
The Working Class Goes to Heaven?
Democracy Against Residential Capitalism
PART IV: The 'Regime of 1978', 1975-2023
7 Neoliberalism and the Asset-Price Economy
Foundations of the New Liberal State
The Constitutional Settlement
The State of Autonomies
Neoliberal Democracy: A Second Restoration?
Neoliberal Restructuring and Asset-Price Speculation
The Onset of Neoliberalism
Experimenting With Financialisation
The Road to the Great Recession
Urbanisation in a Rentierised Economy
The Rise of Urban Entrepreneurialism
The Party-Developer Nexus
The Crisis of Neoliberal Hegemony
European 'Modernisation' and the Petit Rentier
Housing Crash and Hegemonic Breakdown
The Crisis of the Constitutional Settlement
8 The Democratisation of Rentierism
Neoliberalising Housing Provision
Supporting the Homebuyer
The Liberalisation of Mortgage Finance
New Extremes in Capitalist Building
Rent and Residence in the Era of Mass Speculation
Climbing Up the Property Ladder
The Primacy of the Developer
'House Prices Never Go Down'
Crisis and Recomposition of Residential Capitalism
Lineages of the New Urban Activism
The Repoliticisation of Residential Capitalism
Rise and Fall of the New Municipalism
The Revenge of the Landlord
Towards a New Moral Economy?
Concluding Remarks

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PART I: Housing Under Capitalism

1 Residential Capitalism: A Theoretical Introduction



Housing's Paradoxes

Capitalists and Rentiers

Hybrid Logics

What Is (Residential) Capitalism?

A Pre-History of Residential Capitalism

Mass Urbanisation

Capitalist Residential Production

Governing Residential Capitalism

Capital, Hegemony, and the State

Historicising Residential Strategies

Outline of the Book



2 Residential Accumulation in Capitalist Political Economies



Residential Accumulation: Between Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production

The Hybridity of Housing Provision

House Rents in the Capitalist Economy

Residential Social-Property Relations: Analysing Capitalist Housing Provision

Production

Exchange

Finance

Reproduction



PART II: The Liberal Era, 1833-1939

3 Liberal Property and Its Discontents



The Formation of the Liberal State

Framing the Liberal Revolution

Imperial Decline

The Liberal City in an Uneven Capitalist Transition

A Pre-Capitalist Agriculture

Capitalist Production and Mass Urbanisation

The Urban Household

Pacifying the Urban Masses

Spatial Politics of the Liberal Oligarchy

Competing State Projects

Morbid Symptoms



4 The Contradictions of the Liberal City



The Construction of the Liberal City

The Creation of Absolute Private Property

The Rise of the Market-Dependent Rentier

The Capitalist Transition in the Building Trades

Repairing the Liberal City

Faulty Extensions: The Ensanches

Structural Failure: The Underdevelopment of Property Development

Foundational Problems: Towards a Social Liberalism

The Collapse of the Liberal City

The False Promise of Liberal Property

The Unravelling



PART III: Franco's Dictatorship, 1939-75

5 The Reconstruction of Urban Modernity



Political Anatomy of the Francoist State

The Roots of the Counter-Revolution

Bureaucratic Factionalism in the National Movement

Catch-Up Development and Accelerated Urbanisation

Post-War Autarky

Geopolitical Realignment and Technocratic Turn

The 'Spanish Economic Miracle'

Catholic Domestication

Domination and Unrest in the Francoist City

The Limits to Urban Hegemony

Death and Resurrection of Urban Unrest



6 The Property-Owning Autocracy



Falangist Designs

Orchestrate the City

Nurture the Developer

Euthanise the Landlord

Urbanise the Smallholder

Developmentalist Consolidation

Turf War in the Bureaucracy

An Urban State of Exception

The Professionalisation of the Capitalist Developer

Democratic Horizons

The Working Class Goes to Heaven?

Democracy Against Residential Capitalism



PART IV: The 'Regime of 1978', 1975-2023

7 Neoliberalism and the Asset-Price Economy



Foundations of the New Liberal State

The Constitutional Settlement

The State of Autonomies

Neoliberal Democracy: A Second Restoration?

Neoliberal Restructuring and Asset-Price Speculation

The Onset of Neoliberalism

Experimenting With Financialisation

The Road to the Great Recession

Urbanisation in a Rentierised Economy

The Rise of Urban Entrepreneurialism

The Party-Developer Nexus

The Crisis of Neoliberal Hegemony

European 'Modernisation' and the Petit Rentier

Housing Crash and Hegemonic Breakdown

The Crisis of the Constitutional Settlement



8 The Democratisation of Rentierism



Neoliberalising Housing Provision

Supporting the Homebuyer

The Liberalisation of Mortgage Finance

New Extremes in Capitalist Building

Rent and Residence in the Era of Mass Speculation

Climbing Up the Property Ladder

The Primacy of the Developer

'House Prices Never Go Down'

Crisis and Recomposition of Residential Capitalism

Lineages of the New Urban Activism

The Repoliticisation of Residential Capitalism

Rise and Fall of the New Municipalism

The Revenge of the Landlord

Towards a New Moral Economy?



Concluding Remarks

Rezensionen

"This book is an incredibly impressive achievement and contribution, one of the very best yet written on the centrality of housing - how it is mythologized, developed, financed, traded, inhabited, and sometimes lost - to capitalist society, past and present. Moreno Zacarés's historical canvas is Spain, and what a remarkable history it is! But the insights and lessons are universal."

Brett Christophers, Uppsala University, Sweden