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Journal Article
Neoliberalism, Real Estate and Environmental Capital in the Contemporary French Novel
2025
Overview
[...]dramatic increases in housing costs have enabled, and in turn been enabled by, massive interventions by private equity into the housing market, which have drastically furthered inequality, ballooned household debt, and caused exponential growth in homeless populations, with countries like Canada and New Zealand leading the way in terms of extremity, but with the United States, France, Australia, and Ireland trailing not far behind. France, in particular, has seen a shift away from social housing, and subsidised construction, a strategy of \"national embedding of so-called 'free-market players'\" who aim to maximize profits as part of a broader \"'financialization' of everyday life\" (Pollard, 2009, 173, 171). [...]these recent novels, produced by authors of very different political orientations, Michel Houellebecq and Francois Roux, offer insight into the cultural understanding and representation of an economic reality that appears to be \"everywhere\" (Peck & Tickell, 2002, 380) and \"nowhere\" (Venugopal, 2015, 165). Through the articulations of characters, as well as the economic situations in which the authors place them, inductive analysis can contribute to an understanding of these effects, both broad and deep.
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University of Western Australia, School of Humanities,The University of Western Australia
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