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Squatting – the Real Story
Squatters are usually portrayed as worthless scroungers hell-bent on disrupting society. Here at last is the inside story of the 250,000 people from all walks of life who have squatted in Britain over the past 12 years. The country is riddled with empty houses and there are thousands of homeless people. When squatters logically put the two together the result can be electrifying, amazing and occasionally disastrous. SQUATTING the real story is a unique and diverse account the real story of squatting. Written and produced by squatters, it covers all aspects of the subject: • The history of squatting • Famous squats • The politics of squatting • Squatting as a cultural challenge • The facts behind the myths • Squatting around the world and much, much more. Contains over 500 photographs plus illustrations, cartoons, poems, songs and 4 pages of posters and murals in colour. Squatting: a revolutionary force or just a bunch of hooligans doing their own thing? Read this book for the real story. Paperback £4.90 ISBN 0 9507259 1 9 Hardback £11.50 ISBN 0 9507259 0 0 i Electronic version (not revised or updated) of original 1980 edition in portable document format (pdf), 2005 Produced and distributed by Nick Wates Associates Community planning specialists 7 Tackleway Hastings TN34 3DE United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1424 447888 Fax: +44 (0)1424 441514 Email: [email protected] Web: www.nickwates.co.uk Digital layout by Mae Wates and Graphic Ideas the real story First published in December 1980 written by Nick Anning by Bay Leaf Books, PO Box 107, London E14 7HW Celia Brown Set in Century by Pat Sampson Piers Corbyn Andrew Friend Cover photo by Union Place Collective Mark Gimson Printed by Blackrose Press, 30 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0AT (tel: 01 251 3043) Andrew Ingham Pat Moan Cover & colour printing by Morning Litho Printers Ltd. -
Squatted Social Centres in England and Italy in the Last Decades of the Twentieth Century
Squatted social centres in England and Italy in the last decades of the twentieth century. Giulio D’Errico Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD Department of History and Welsh History Aberystwyth University 2019 Abstract This work examines the parallel developments of squatted social centres in Bristol, London, Milan and Rome in depth, covering the last two decades of the twentieth century. They are considered here as a by-product of the emergence of neo-liberalism. Too often studied in the present tense, social centres are analysed here from a diachronic point of view as context- dependent responses to evolving global stimuli. Their ‗journey through time‘ is inscribed within the different English and Italian traditions of radical politics and oppositional cultures. Social centres are thus a particularly interesting site for the development of interdependency relationships – however conflictual – between these traditions. The innovations brought forward by post-modernism and neo-liberalism are reflected in the centres‘ activities and modalities of ‗social‘ mobilisation. However, centres also voice a radical attitude towards such innovation, embodied in the concepts of autogestione and Do-it-Yourself ethics, but also through the reinstatement of a classist approach within youth politics. Comparing the structured and ambitious Italian centres to the more informal and rarefied English scene allows for commonalities and differences to stand out and enlighten each other. The individuation of common trends and reciprocal exchanges helps to smooth out the initial stark contrast between local scenes. In turn, it also allows for the identification of context- based specificities in the interpretation of local and global phenomena. -
The Ethics of Space: Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England
THE EtHICS OF SPACE THE EtHICS OF SPACE HOMELESSNESS AND SQUATTING IN URBAN ENGLAND Steph Grohmann Hau Books Chicago © 2020 Hau Books The Ethics of Space: Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England by Steph Grohmann is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cover design: Daniele Meucci Layout design: Deepak Sharma, Prepress Plus Typesetting: Prepress Plus (www.prepressplus.in) ISBN: 978-1-912808-28-1 [paperback] ISBN: 978-1-912808-38-0 [PDF] LCCN: 2019956078 Hau Books Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S. Langley Chicago, IL 60628 www.haubooks.org Hau Books publications are printed, marketed, and distributed by The University of Chicago Press. www.press.uchicago.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. For all who are out of place Table of Contents Acknowledgements ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Chapter One: Of life and fieldwork 47 The“field” as morally neutral zone 55 Chapter Two: Shelter 67 An attack on one is an attack on all 75 Chapter Three: Hope 90 Becoming at home 100 Chapter Four: Codes of honor and protection 111 Of apes and anarchists 118 Chapter Five: Total places 133 The Big Society strikes back 141 Chapter Six: The enemy within 153 The eturnr of the savage noble 164 viii THE EtHICS OF SPACE Chapter Seven: Fragments 177 Death and sanctions 187 Chapter Eight: Circle the wagons 204 Extinction 213 Epilogue 231 Index 239 Reference List 249 Ethnographic Vignettes: Trolley Problem 45 Refugee 66 Spell 89 Through the Looking Glass 131 Clash 175 Dispatch 202 Acknowledgements This book has been a long time in the making, and it would be impossible to list here all who have contributed to making it possible. -
Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe: a Comparative Study
Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe: a comparative study http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.crp2b20037 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe: a comparative study Author/Creator Ranger, Terence O. Publisher James Currey Ltd. (London) Date 1985 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mozambique Coverage (temporal) 1917 - 1980 Source Northwestern University Libraries, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, 968.91 R196p Rights Terence Ranger, Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study, (c) 1985 by London: James Currey, Ltd. -
Lutar, Ocupar, Resistir Studio X
AS ALTERNATIVAS HABITACIONAIS DOS MOVIMENTOS SOCIAIS LUTAR OCUPAR RESISTIR Na virada do milênio, a antiga fábrica de leite CCPL no Rio de Janeiro foi ocupada por famílias vindas de favelas próximas ou conjuntos habitacionais distantes daquela área da Zona Norte carioca. Havia lá uma inteligência na implantação das improvisadas instalações e na distribuição das moradias, espaços coletivos, equipamentos sociais e comércio. O que despontava como uma alternativa urbana demandava uma estruturação que nunca ocorreu: o prédio industrial foi demolido, dando lugar a um pouco inspirador conjunto Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV). Em 2001 foi sancionado o Estatuto das Cidades, lei federal que regulamenta a função social da propriedade. Entretanto, tais normativas não se efetivam, escancarando que o problema habitacional e o justo acesso à cidade são questões ainda longe de uma solução. Desde então, as ocupações espalharam-se pelo Brasil. Os movimentos sociais de moradia fortaleceram suas ideias e sua organização com processos participativos que, por vezes, envolveram arquitetos e urbanistas. Enquanto, em grande medida, a discussão pública sobre habitação perdura concentrando seu foco nas favelas e no MCMV, as ocupações emergiram como uma alternativa de moradia coletiva que responde diretamente aos problemas urbanos nacionais. Parte da iniciativa Housing the Majority da rede global Studio-X, a pesquisa Lutar, Ocupar, Resistir: As Alternativas Habitacionais dos Movimentos Sociais trata deste controverso tema, visando compreender esses processos e como eles podem instruir no planejamento e na construção das urbes. Esta é a segunda versão do tabloide originalmente feito para a exposição de 2016 no Rio de Janeiro e agora ampliado no contexto da 11ª Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo. -
Squatter Upgrading in Zambia
Squatter Upgrading in Zambia Adequacy of the Institutional Framework Alice Lungu Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society NOVEMBER 2016 The copyright in this thesis is owned by the author. Any quotation from the thesis or use of any of the information contained in it must acknowledge this thesis as the source of the quotation or information. ABSTRACT The Government of Zambia plans to become a prosperous middle-income country by 2030. Therefore, it has announced intentions to upgrade squatter settlements to improve the living conditions of the urban poor, and enable them to participate in the vision. However, without a squatter upgrading framework in place, the research assumed government would use the existing Lusaka Squatter Upgrading Project (LSUP) framework. Hence, this research titled Squatter Upgrading in Zambia: Adequacy of the Institutional Framework, undertook to examine the extent to which the existing institutional framework was adequate for initiating and supporting squatter upgrading. The research draws on an analysis of data gathered from in-depth interviews with 102 participants (including central and local governments, NGOs, financial institutions, and squatter residents) observations and documentary review. The research has traced the close links between governance – in the form of the historical legacy of colonialism, post-colonial socialist housing policies and power dynamics between central and local government - and the growth of informal housing within Zambia. Further, it has shown that the culture of clientelism is a major barrier to future efforts to upgrade squatter settlements. While this study took place in Zambia, it is likely that similar links between governance and the growth of squatter settlements are likely to be found in many other Sub-Saharan countries. -
The Squatters Movement in Brighton and London (DRAFT Please Do Not Cite Without Permission)
Resourceful Cities Berlin (Germany) 29- 31 August 2013 A Tool for Social Change: The squatters movement in Brighton and London (DRAFT please do not cite without permission) E.T.C.Dee A paper presented at the International RC21 Conference 2013 Session 26: Autonomous urban movements: socio-spatial structures and political impacts Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence University of Sussex [email protected] © E.T.C.Dee Not to be quoted without permission 1 Introduction This paper will argue that squatting as a political tool began in England in its modern form with housing need and quickly branched into other areas of protest, which continue to this day, with the right to decent housing remaining as a fundamental driving force. We will focus on political squatting for several reasons: private residential squatting is of course much more common yet by its underground nature almost impossible to track; political squatting is open about its intentions as activism for social change and thus is easier to study; paradoxically the political squatting movement, a vibrant new social movement of over forty years' standing in the England is little theorised. We will concentrate on two important time frames, namely the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the modern squatting movement began and the present day (the late 2000s and early 2010s), when squatting has been criminalised in residential buildings and hence is ostensibly at an endpoint.1 Attempts were made to criminalise squatting previously in the late 1970s and mid 1990s, but for reasons of space we can only refer to these times briefly (although these moves do in themselves indicate the continuance of squatting as a movement). -
I CONTENTIOUS URBANIZATION from BELOW: LAND SQUATTING IN
CONTENTIOUS URBANIZATION FROM BELOW: LAND SQUATTING IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla BA in Social Work, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, 2000 MA in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2004 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 2009 i UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT This dissertation was presented by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla It was defended on April 21, 2009 and approved by Kathleen Blee, Distinguished Professor, Sociology Department, U. of Pittsburgh Patrick Doreian, Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department, U. of Pittsburgh Javier Auyero, Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology, Sociology Department, U. of Texas, Austin Dissertation Advisor: John Markoff, University Professor, Sociology Department, U. of Pittsburgh ii Copyright © by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla 2009 iii CONTENTIOUS URBANIZATION FROM BELOW: LAND SQUATTING IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY María José Álvarez-Rivadulla, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2009 What explains the evolution and dynamics of land squatting in Montevideo, Uruguay? Over the last few decades squatter settlements have increased dramatically in this city that lacked a ―frontier‖ of poor illegal settlements until the 1980s, with the exception of a handful of very precarious neighborhoods dubbed cantegriles that started appearing around the 1950s. Today, about 11 % of the city‘s population lives on illegally occupied land (INE 2006). The more than 400 current squatter settlements have expanded the city limits, leaving a very concrete trace of urban and social change. Squatter settlements mushroomed without natural disasters setting people in motion and without population growth due to rural to urban migration processes, frequent causes of land squatting elsewhere.