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Supergentrificação, turistificação e os riscos de insustentabilidade social no centro histórico de Lisboa

Publication . Mendes, Luís

A cidade de Lisboa viveu na década compreendida entre 2009 e 2019 um pico de projeção internacional enquanto destino turístico, ao mesmo tempo que o seu mercado de habitação atraiu dinâmicas globais de procura e de investimento estrangeiro, assistindo-se a uma intensificação dos processos de gentrificação, turistificação e financeirização da habitação, agudizando um processo de despovoamento do centro histórico que data de há já 50 anos a esta parte, colocando em risco a sustentabilidade social deste território.

2023Book part

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Changing social movements in Lisbon? Housing financialisation and post-pandemic activism

Publication . Mendes, Luís; Tulumello, Simone

During the last decade, following years of austerity and rapid growth driven by tourism, real estate, and external investment, Lisbon has become a paradigmatic case of the financialisation/crisis nexus in the housing field. The simultaneous emergence and growth of social movements for the right to housing has been widely documented, with some accounts focusing on anti-financialisation struggles. In this article, we present the repertoires and claims of four activist groups and platforms born between 2022 and 2023 and discuss how Portuguese social movements are contending with the increasing centrality of financialisation in housing. In sum, we present three broad patterns of rescaling – intersectionality, internationalisation, and relations with political parties – in relation to the general endeavour to build a mass movement.

2024Journal article

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