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Metropolitan preoccupations : the spatial politics of squatting in Berlin / Alex Vasudevan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vasudevan, Alex, author.
- Series:
- RGS-IBG book series.
- RGS-IBG Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Squatter settlements--Germany--Berlin--History.
- Squatter settlements.
- Squatters--Political activity--Germany--Berlin |x History--History.
- Squatters.
- Human geography--Political aspects.
- Human geography.
- Protest movements--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.
- Protest movements.
- Housing--Germany--Berlin--History.
- Housing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. * Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the city * Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the "right to the city" and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanisms * Examines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformation * Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wake * Draws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Crisis and critique
- Resistance and autonomy
- Antagonism and repair
- Separation and renewal
- Capture and experimentation
- Conclusion: "Der kampf geht weiter".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781118750551
- 1118750551
- 9781118750599
- 1118750594
- 9781118750582
- 1118750586
- OCLC:
- 927407758
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