By Bart van der Steen, Ask Katzeff, Leendert van Hoogenhuijze, Geronimo, George Katsiaficas
ISBN-10: 1604866837
ISBN-13: 9781604866834
Squatters and self sustaining events were on the leading edge of radical politics in Europe for almost a half-century—from struggles opposed to city renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. via an exam of the neighborhood background of those activities in 8 various cities—including Amsterdam, Berlin, and different well-known facilities of self reliant insurgence, in addition to underdocumented towns akin to Poznan and Athens—The urban Is Ours paints a large and complicated photograph of Europe’s squatting and self reliant routine. each one bankruptcy makes a speciality of one urban and gives a transparent chronological narrative and research observed by way of pictures and illustrations. The sections middle at the most vital occasions and advancements within the historical past of those hobbies, settling on the specificities of the neighborhood pursuits and working with matters reminiscent of the relation among politics and way of life, generational shifts, the function of disagreement and violence, and adjustments in political strategies. The participants are all politically engaged authors who mix educational scrutiny with obtainable writing, offering a transparent and fascinating view of vital modern social hobbies.
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This book deals with the history of squatting in Europe after 1968 from a wide range of intellectual perspectives. The contributions show that squatting is not solely about the realisation of a certain lifestyle or philosophy that differs from the mainstream. Rather, every squatter action contains elements of militancy and dual power. non-political? people have to somehow live together. It is much easier said than happily done. What should the squat become and what should everyday life in the squat look like?
6 Soon after publication, the handbook ironically played a prominent role in a police instruction film made by the Hamburg police department in May 1973. The film laid out a blueprint of how to evict squatters, illustrated by the coldly calculated and brutal eviction of a squatted house in the Hamburg Eckhofstrasse that same month. 7 I can still clearly remember how the contents of this handbook were studied to great detail in the mid-1980s by my comrades in the Hamburg Hafenstrasse, when they started to barricade their houses against further police raids.
In contrast to the movements of the 1970s, the squatters of the 1980s were not only more pessimistic, they also seemed younger and less theoretically inclined. One could even say that anti-theoretical attitudes were dominant in the movements of the 1980s. 38 As a result, actions became more important than their theoretical underpinning. Furthermore, a revaluation of romanticist sentiments played a role. Most importantly because the squatters? 39 But the anti-theoretical stance was in part also a reaction to the decline of the radical movements of the 1970s.