The autonomous life? : paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam / Nazima Kadir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kadir, Nazima, author.

Contributor:

Kadir, Nazima, contributor.

Series:

Contemporary anarchist studies (Manchester, England)

Contemporary anarchist studies.

Manchester Political Studies

Contemporary anarchist studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Squatters--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Squatters.

Squatter settlements--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Squatter settlements.

Housing--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Housing.

Social movements--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Social movements.

Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural community that defines itself as a social movement. While the majority of scholarly studies on this movement focus on its official face, on its front stage, this book concerns itself with the ideological and practical paradoxes at work within the micro-social dynamics of the backstage, an area that has so far been neglected in social movement studies. The central question is how hierarchy and authority function in a social movement subculture that disavows such concepts. The squatters’ movement, which defines itself primarily as anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian, is profoundly structured by the unresolved and perpetual contradiction between both public disavowal and simultaneous maintenance of hierarchy and authority within the movement. This study analyzes how this contradiction is then reproduced in different micro-social interactions, examining the methods by which people negotiate minute details of their daily lives as squatter activists in the face of a funhouse mirror of ideological expectations reflecting values from within the squatter community, that, in turn, often refract mainstream, middle class norms.

Contents:

1. Squatter capital

2. The habitus of emotional sovereignty

3. 'Showing commitment' and emotional management

4. Liminal adolescence or entrapping marginality?

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781784994112

1784994111

9781784998004

1784998001

OCLC:

1001278949