Metropolitan Preoccupations

The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin

Alexander Vasudevan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2015
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-75060-5 (ISBN)

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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

Alexander Vasudevan is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. A co-editor of Practicing the Archive: Reflections on Method and Practice in Historical Geography (with E. Gagen and H. Lorimer, 2007) his work has been published in several prestigious journals, including Antipode, Cultural Geographies, Environment and Planning A and D, Progress in Human Geography, and Social and Cultural Geography. His current research focuses on radical politics, urban squatting and the wider geographies of contemporary precarity.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	RGS-IBG Book Series
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-118-75060-8 / 1118750608
ISBN-13	978-1-118-75060-5 / 9781118750605
Zustand	Neuware