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Cracking under pressure : narrating the decline of the Amsterdam squatters' movement / Lynn Owens.
LIBRA HN520.Z9 S625 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owens, Lynn, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Social movements.
- Housing--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Housing.
- Netherlands--Social conditions--1945-.
- Netherlands.
- Social conditions.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "An investigation of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam, which emerged in the late 1970s as a reaction to the housing shortage of the 1960s, peaked in the early 1980s, and then fell into a period of prolonged decline. Focuses on issues relating to the decline of social movements"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction 11
- Documenting Decline 20
- Defining Decline 24
- Why the Amsterdam Squatters' Movement? 34
- Chapter Overview 36
- 1 Radicalization: The Birth of the Squatters' Movement 43
- Squatting: Individual Act or Basis of a Movement? 45
- From Squatting to Squatters 54
- From Squatter to Squatters' Movement 63
- Radicalization 68
- Queen for a Day 81
- Mistake or First Sign of Decline? 83
- Conclusion 84
- 2 Luck Runs Out 89
- Hardening Narratives, Hardening Tactics 91
- Fear Itself 92
- Unchecked Radicalization and the Loss of Boundaries 97
- The Lucky Luijk 100
- Retaking the Luijk 103
- Holding on to the Luijk 111
- No More Luck, No More Luijk 115
- Who's the Boss? 116
- You Can't Live in a Symbol 121
- Gender Divides 123
- The Luijk as a Sign of Decline 126
- Conclusion 129
- 3 Holiday Inn, Wijers Out 133
- Wijers Lives 136
- Life in the Wijers 139
- Holiday Away from Home 144
- Strategy 152
- Wijers Out, Holiday Inn 159
- Squatting or Shopkeeping? 160
- Wijers Decline, Why Decline? 164
- Conclusion 166
- 4 Death in the Movement, Death of the Movement 171
- Fortress of Solitude 174
- Kok Fights: Death in the Movement 177
- Death and the Movement 180
- The Movement is Dead! Long Live Movement! 184
- Restoring the Movement 187
- From OZG to PVK 196
- Collapsing Old Buildings 206
- Vision of the New Movement 208
- Crazy Thursday 210
- Feeling Decline 214
- Conclusion 216
- 5 The End: Now, Near, or Never? 219
- Are We Dead Yet? 221
- The Decline of a Political Movement 225
- The Ascendance of a Cultural Movement 228
- Silo Down 230
- Tourist Traps 237
- Squatters: from Tourists to Tourist Attraction 239
- Breeding Grounds of Contentment or Contempt? 242
- The Decline of Decline 247
- Conclusion 248
- Conclusion 253
- The Decline of Narratives and Narratives of Decline 255
- Strategic Crossroads and Identity Crises 257
- When Culture and Politics Collide and Collude 259
- Emotions, Public and Private 261
- Decline as Double Edged 263
- Defining Moments, Defining Movements 267
- Decline: The Offer 270.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271034621
- 0271034629
- 9780271034638
- 0271034637
- 9789089640598
- 9089640592
- 9789048506446
- 9048506441
- OCLC:
- 221961759
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