Produkt
KlappentextIn 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
* 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
Details
Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781118750551
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Format Hinweis2 - DRM Adobe / EPUB
FormatFormat mit automatischem Seitenumbruch (reflowable)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum10.08.2015
Auflage1. Auflage
ReiheRGS-IBG Book Series
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Dateigrösse15862 Kbytes
Artikel-Nr.3215525
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Genre9201