Social Movements that Care - Empathy, Solidarity, and Empowerment in the Fight Against Evictions

The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (PAH) has left a crucial mark in the history of Spanish social movements by advocating for the over 700,000 families that have been evicted since its inception in 2009. This book explores how the PAH has blocked thousands of evictions through civil resistance, prevented many more through negotiations with banks, and rehoused thousands of evicted families in apartments recuperated from banks and vulture funds. Through the framework of the Politics of Care, Felipe G. Santos explores the emotional, identity, and participatory challenges that hindered the mobilization of those affected by mortgages. The book also reveals how empathy from a group of people unaffected by mortgage issues sparked mobilization, and how care relationships empowered those facing eviction to lead the fight for housing rights.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Housing Crisis, Care and Empowerment.- Chapter 2: Caring Movements and Care in Movements.- Chapter 3: The Origins of PAH: Empathy & Solidarity Mobilization.- Chapter 4: From Immobilized to Empowered: Beneficiary Mobilization in PAH.- Chapter 5: Emotional Care: From the Sentiments of Eviction to the Feelings of Contention.- Chapter 6: Identity Care and Becoming Activists.- Chapter 7: Facilitating Commitment through Participatory Care.- Chapter 8: Care, Solidarity, Coalitions and Power.

About the author

Felipe G. Santos is a Research Fellow at City, University of London, UK, and Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania.

Product details

• Authors: Felipe G Santos, Felipe G. Santos
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2025
• EAN: 9783031742958
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3174295-8
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Illustrations: XV, 225 p. 4 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; Sozialpsychologie, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Politik und Staat, Social Policy, Political Sociology, Community Psychology, Urban Sociology, Housing Policy, social movement studies, Social activism, civil empowerment, solidarity movements, care relations