IN3’s Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «Lifestyle mobility in the era of “gang violence” as a lens for social difference: four theses on nomadism between Sweden and Spain», given by Ismael Yrigoy, Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela, researcher at the Uppsala University and visiting researcher at TURBA-Lab.
The seminar will be held, virtually and in person, on Friday, February 2 at 11:30 h (CET) in Room 1.5 of the Can Jaumandreu (Building U).
Venue
Can Jaumandreu (Room 1.5)
Perú 52
08018 Barcelona
Espanya
When
02/02/2024 11.30h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab)
Program
Abstract
Lifestyle mobility from Sweden to Spain is increasingly fuelled by imaginaries of place, based on the lack of safety in Sweden and enhanced safety in Spain. I aim to analyse how these imaginaries of escaping Sweden are constructed, and how this escape is mediated and constrained by overheated housing markets in coastal Spain. My key hypothesis is that the ways lifestyle nomads deal with overheated markets illustrate key social/class differences among them. To illustrate the differences and similarities between Swedish lifestyle nomads, I will dissect theoretically and empirically the interplay between perceptions of place, asset ownership, the position of individuals in the relations of production, and intersectional forms of oppression.
Ismael Yrigoy
Visiting fellow at TURBA, IN3, UOC. He is a Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela and a researcher at the Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University. His research has focused on analysing the political economy of real estate markets in Spain, with a particular focus on how regulations have shaped corporate landlords' investments in Spanish housing markets, on the impacts of Airbnb across the Balearic archipelago and the forms of tourism-oriented rentiers by hotel corporations. He is currently working on exploring the social composition of Swedish homeowners in the Mediterranean coast.