Vasudevan Metropolitan Preoccupations

The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-75058-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and politicalgeography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links theeveryday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduringquestions about the relationship between space, culture, andprotest.
* Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters intheir attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefinewhat it means to live in the city
* Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recentdebates about the "right to the city" and the role ofgrassroots 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 socialtransformation
* Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany bydeveloping a critical geographical reading of theanti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connectionand solidarity that emerged in its wake
* Draws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewherein Germany

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vasudevan, Alexander

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface viii
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction: Making Radical Urban Politics 1
2 Crisis and Critique 27
3 Resistance and Autonomy 53
4 Antagonism and Repair 86
5 Separation and Renewal 133
6 Capture and Experimentation 164
7 Conclusion: "Der Kampf geht weiter" 196
References 209
Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Vasudevan is Assistant Professor of Culturaland Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. Aco-editor of Practicing the Archive: Reflections on Methodand Practice in Historical Geography (with E. Gagen and H.Lorimer, 2007) his work has been published in several prestigiousjournals, including Antipode, CulturalGeographies, Environment and PlanningA and D, Progress in HumanGeography, and Social and CulturalGeography. His current research focuses on radicalpolitics, urban squatting and the wider geographies of contemporaryprecarity.