City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present by Van Der Steen, Bart
City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present by Van Der Steen, Bart

City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present

Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a...
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Author: Bart Van Der Steen
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City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present by Van Der Steen, Bart

City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present

$49.70
City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present by Van Der Steen, Bart

City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present

$49.70
Author: Bart Van Der Steen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century--from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent.

Through the compilation of the local movement histories of eight different cities--including Amsterdam, Berlin, and other famous centers of autonomous insurgence along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens--The City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe's squatting and autonomous movements.

Each chapter focuses on one city and provides a clear chronological narrative and analysis accompanied by photographs and illustrations. The chapters focus on the most important events and developments in the history of these movements. Furthermore, they identify the specificities of the local movements and deal with issues such as the relation between politics and subculture, generational shifts, the role of confrontation and violence, and changes in political tactics.

All chapters are written by politically-engaged authors who combine academic scrutiny with accessible writing. Readers with an interest in the history of the newest social movements will find plenty to mull over here. Contributors include Nazima Kadir, Gregor Kritidis, Claudio Cattaneo, Enrique Tudela, Alex Vasudevan, Needle Collective and the Bash Street Kids, René Karpantschof, Flemming Mikkelsen, Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Grzegorz Piotrowski, and Robert Foltin.



Author: Bart Van Der Steen
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 09/11/2014
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781604866834


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 1064

About the Author
Bart van der Steen completed his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, where he studied the squatter and autonomous movements in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s. Ask Katzeff is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, where he focuses on the interaction between urban development and squatting in Europe from the 1970s onward. Leendert van Hoogenhuijze is the coeditor of the Dutch socialist annual Kritiek. George Katsiaficas is a longtime activist for peace and justice who has twice been granted Fulbright fellowships. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Imagination of the New Left; Latino Social Movements: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party; The Subversion of Politics; and Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views. He lives in the Boston area. Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. He is the author of Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement.


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