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It is a compelling read, using the accounts and experiences of debtors to bring complex theory to life, while giving the reader a clear understanding of the violence of debt-fueled capital accumulation.--Christopher Harker author of Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine This book is packed with an excellent blend of theory and empirical evidence, presented with eloquence, power, and grace. The unique configuration of subprime lending and debt-law discipline--predatory capital with Spanish characteristics--completely transforms the social experience of space and time, altering the calculus of life, death, and capital. With a potent blend of Marxian political economy, poststructural, feminist, and postcolonial perspectives, Garcia-Lamarca's book will contribute to ongoing struggles to understand and challenge the relentless capitalization of the use-values of daily life into the speculative exchange values of capital accumulation.--Elvin Wyly author of The Evolving State of Gentrification

"""Garc�a-Lamarca has opened up a line of inquiry and interdisciplinary research deeply relevant to present social justice movements and scholarship.""--Isabel Guti�rrez S�nchez ""Urban Studies"" It is a compelling read, using the accounts and experiences of debtors to bring complex theory to life, while giving the reader a clear understanding of the violence of debt-fueled capital accumulation.--Christopher Harker ""author of Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine"" This book is packed with an excellent blend of theory and empirical evidence, presented with eloquence, power, and grace. The unique configuration of subprime lending and debt-law discipline--predatory capital with Spanish characteristics--completely transforms the social experience of space and time, altering the calculus of life, death, and capital. With a potent blend of Marxian political economy, poststructural, feminist, and postcolonial perspectives, Garcia-Lamarca's book will contribute to ongoing struggles to understand and challenge the relentless capitalization of the use-values of daily life into the speculative exchange values of capital accumulation.--Elvin Wyly ""author of The Evolving State of Gentrification"""

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Melissa García-Lamarca is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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