Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Images
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Squatting and Urban Justice
	Contents and Arguments
1. Squatting as an Urban Movement
	Structural Constraints and Social Conflict
	Critical Social Science
	Capitalism, Democracy, and Urban Movements
		Practices, Movements, and Scales
		Socio-Spatialities and Socio-Temporalities
	Back to the Grassroots
		Movement Effects Contextualised
		The Contentious Social Production of Space
	Squatters’ Movements
	Squatting and the Right to the City
		The Right to Squat the City
		Legacies of Fruitful Associations
		Squatting Rights in Contention with the Existing Capitalist City
		Social Justice in European Urban Politics
	References
2. Autonomy from Capitalism
	Converging Radicalisms
	From the Factory to Metropolitan Struggles
	Mobilisation and Liberation of Everyday Life
	Diffused Autonomy and Interdependence
	Collective Self-Determination of the Oppressed
	Squatting and the Radical Left in Berlin
	References
3. Socio-Spatial Structures
	Housing Shortages and Vacancy Rates
	Urban Renewal
		Are Squatters the Storm Troopers of Gentrification?
	Legislation and Law Enforcement
	Activist Networks
	Social Recognition
	Amsterdam: The Lost Paradise of Squatting?
	References
4. Types of Squatting
	Squatted Houses and Social Centres
	Motivations and Outcomes
	Overlaps and Splits
	Interactions between Squatters and Migrants
		Beyond Deprivation
		Autonomous Agency: When Migrants Squat
		Squatters, Migrants, and the Global Justice Movement
		Migrants’ Empowerment through the 15M Movement
		Interactions and Contexts
	Squatting in Paris: Internal Divisions and Local Regulation
	References
5. Anomalous Institutions
	The Movements’ Structural Dilemmas
	Strategic Negotiations
		High-Level Negotiations
		Transactional Negotiations
		Survival Negotiations
		Forced Negotiations
	To Be or Not to Be Legalised
	Institutionalisation
		Type I Institutionalisation: Integration of the Movement into State Institutions
		Type II Institutionalisation: New Institutions Promoted by Social Movements
		Type III Institutionalisation: Creation of Anomalous Institutions
	Legalisation of Squats in Madrid
		Fully Legalised Squats
		Failed Attempts at Legalisation
		The Rejection of Legalisation
		Analytical Remarks
	References
6. Criminalisation and Counter-Hegemony
	The Performative Powers of ‘Spectacular Narrations’
		Are Squatters All the Same?
			Soft Gentrifiers
		Are There Good and Bad Squatters?
			Internal Cleavages
	Discursive Struggles and Counter-Hegemonic Discourse
		Reversive Responses
		Subversive Alternatives
	The Criminalisation of Squatting Invigorates Class Domination
	References
Methodological Note
Index