Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies CLALSES
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 4:00pm
McNeil 473
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Abstract:
What kind of politics come after mortgage default? How do people rebuild their lives after eviction? This talk examines transnational household dynamics and the financial arrangements that gave rise to massive mortgage default among Ecuadorian migrant families in Spain. Unemployed and overindebted, Ecuadorians turned to activism for the right to housing and engaged in resistance strategies that safeguarded their families and future livelihoods, while, simultaneously, reinterpreting the very concept of property in political terms.
Bio:
Maka Suarez is an assistant professor at the department of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her work moves across political, economic, and multimodal anthropology. Before coming to Oslo, she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and the cofounder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography - Kaleidos at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador where she developed various multimodal ethnographic projects, including the platform EthnoData for the critical analysis of statistical and ethnographic material on violent deaths in Ecuador. For the past decade she’s also been an activist with the Spanish social movement for the right to housing, La PAH.