(RGS-IBG Book Series) 1st Edition
by Alexander Vasudevan (Author)
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
