The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements

Introduction. The Politics of Squatting, Time Frames and Spatial Contexts.- PART I. Case Studies.- Socio-Spatial Structures and Protest Cycles of Squatted Social Centres in Madrid.- Squatting Cycles in Barcelona: Identities, Repression and The Controversy of Institutionalisation.- Shifting Socio-Spatial Contexts and The Space of Social Movements: Squatting in Seville..- Occupations of Housing and Social Centers in Rome: A Durable Resistance to Neoliberalism and Institutionalisation.- The Squatting Movement(s) in Paris: Internal Divides and Conditions for Survival.- The Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969-2016).- Cycles of The Copenhagen Squatter Movement: From Slumstormer to Bz Brigades and The Autonomous Movement.- The Political Squatters' Movement and Its Social Centres in The Gentrifying City of Rotterdam.- The Ebb and Flow of Resistance: The Squatters' Movement and Squatted Social Centres in Brighton.- PART II. Comparisons.- More Than Four Decades OF Squattin


g: Cycles, Waves and Stages of Autonomous Urban Politics in European Cities.- Keep Your Piece of Cake, We'll Squat The Bakery! Autonomy Meets Repression and Institutionalisation.- Squatted Social Centres and The Housing Question.

Dr Miguel A. Martínez is Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, University of Uppsala, Sweden) He was previously affiliated to the City University of Hong Kong and the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He participates regularly in SqEK (Squatting Europe Kollective).