The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present
By (Author) Bart van der Steen
Edited by Ask Katzeff
Edited by Leendert van Hoogenhuijze
PM Press
PM Press
2nd January 2015
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
322.4094
Physical Properties
Paperback
316
Width 152mm, Height 230mm
371g
Description
Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century - from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the anti-austerity protests sweeping the continent. Compiling local movement histories of eight different cities - including Amsterdam, Berlin and other famous centres of autonomous insurgence, along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens - The City is Ours paints a complex picture of squatting in Europe.
Reviews
"One of the best books on squatting in English language. An immensely useful, wide-ranging, and insightful book about a fascinating part of radical history. PM Press has finally made it possible for American activists to understand the hidden history of housing."
--Andrej Grubacic, coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
"This is a wonderful and important book. It makes key contributions to how we should think about squatting as well as how we should think about the best way to study social movements. Insightful, provocative, and educational, it provides a broad spectrum of cases and perspectives on squatter movements in Europe."
--Linus Owens, author of Cracking under Pressure
Author Bio
Bart van der Steen completed his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, where he studied the squatter and autonomous movements in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s. Ask Katzeff is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, where he focuses on the interaction between urban development and squatting in Europe from the 1970s onward. Leendert van Hoogenhuijze is the coeditor of the Dutch socialist annual Kritiek. George Katsiaficas is a longtime activist for peace and justice who has twice been granted Fulbright fellowships. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Imagination of the New Left; Latino Social Movements: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party; The Subversion of Politics; and Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views. He lives in the Boston area. Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. He is the author of Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement.
