Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles Edited by the Squatting Europe Kollective <.:.Min0r.:.> .c0mp0siti0ns. Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles Edited by the Squatting Europe Kollective ISBN 978-1-57027-257-8 Cover design by Haduhi Szukis Interior design by Margaret Killjoy Editorial Support: Joshua Eichen, VyVy, Miguel A. Martínez, Hans Pruijt, and Stevphen Shukaitis Cover Image: CSO Los Blokes Fantasma from the district Gracia in Barcelona Inside cover image: Tina Helen Released by Minor Compositions 2013 Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia www.minorcompositions.info |
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[email protected] Contents Preface . 1 Margit Mayer Introduction . 11 . Miguel Martínez, Gianni Piazza and Hans Pruijt Squatting in Europe . .17 . Hans Pruijt Resisting and Challenging Neoliberalism: . 61. Pierpaolo Mudu How do activists make decisions within Social Centres? . 89. Gianni Piazza The Squatters’ Movement in Spain . 113. Miguel A. Martínez López Urban squatting, rural squatting and the ecological-economic perspective . 139 Claudio Cattaneo Squatting And Urban Renewal . 161 Andrej Holm and Armin Kuhn Have squat, will travel . 185 Lynn Owens Configurations of squats in Paris and the Ile-de-France Region . 209 Thomas Aguilera What is a “good” squatter? . 231 . Florence Bouillon Moving towards criminalisation and then what? . .247 ETC Dee About the Authors . 269. About the Squatting Europe Kollective . 273. Preface Margit Mayer Thanks to the Occupy movement, the call to squat is once again raised more widely and acted upon with increasing frequency.