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Title: Home is where the profit is : the vernacularisation of property development in contemporary Malta
Authors: Farrugia, Ann Marie
Keywords: Real estate development -- Malta
International economic integration -- Malta
Labor supply -- Malta
Capital movements -- Malta
Issue Date: 2019
Citation: Farrugia, A.M. (2019). Home is where the profit is : the vernacularisation of property development in contemporary Malta (Bachelor’s dissertation).
Abstract: By considering property as a vernacular currency, this dissertation provides a sociological analysis on the social, symbolic and economic causes and effects that characterize property development in Malta. By gaining insights on the narratives of social actors who are experiencing property redevelopment, this dissertation assesses how these same effects, in turn, come to impinge and characterize the cultural meaning of home. Through the analysis of global economic integration, this dissertation also analyses how these same causes and effects influence and are influenced by two key characterisations of global processes, namely, the mobility of the global labour force and the mobility of capital. Later, through the analysis of risk, this study concludes that the redevelopment of space leads to a new imaginative geography whose traversability forms part of a new account of economic growth, one which is no longer dictated by centre and periphery.
Description: B.A.(HONS)SOC.STUD.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/49464
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