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Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
Alexander Vasudevan
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Description for Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
Paperback. In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFFB; JFSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.
In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.
- Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the city
- Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the “right to the city” and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanisms
- Examines the implications ... Read more
- Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wake
- Draws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118750605
SKU
V9781118750605
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99-50
About Alexander Vasudevan
Alexander Vasudevan is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. A co-editor of Practicing the Archive: Reflections on Method and Practice in Historical Geography (with E. Gagen and H. Lorimer, 2007) his work has been published in several prestigious journals, including Antipode, Cultural Geographies, Environment and Planning A and D, Progress in Human Geography, and Social and Cultural Geography. His current research focuses on radical ... Read more
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