Squatting everywhere kollective (SqEK) aims with this book to move beyond the conventional understandings of squatting, investigating its history in different places over the past four decades.<\/p>\n
While waves of repression against squatters seem to spread across many places, attacking and shutting down its remaining squatting strongholds and its historical spaces of rebellion, some squatted social centres manage to persist and new occupied zones arise \u2013 successfully defended through public mobilization and widespread solidarity, alongside militant action. At the same time, squatting has seen a rebirth as a tool of radical praxis in movements fighting against the rising number of evictions and foreclosures during the financial crisis, facing the policies of racism and creating open spaces for refugees, migrants and people of colour. The collected essays, first-hand accounts and photographs in this book do not intend to offer an over-arching narrative of where the squatters movement is heading. Instead the book provides glimpses into a diverse and multi-faceted movement, with accounts from local struggles, experiences of repression and stories of collective forms of life which have grown out of squatted spaces in various cities and countries throughout the world, including accounts from Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Seattle and Australia.<\/p>\n
AVAILABLE NOW! From the publisher<\/a>. Cheaper in person or at a forthcoming talk.<\/p>\n PDF download (10mb)<\/a><\/p>\n [pdf-embedder url=\u00bbhttps:\/\/blogs.sindominio.net\/trespass\/files\/2018\/10\/sqek-fighting-nocover.pdf\u00bb] Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n Instead of an Introduction<\/em> Voices of Resistance \u2013 About the Refugee Movement in Kreuzberg (Berlin)<\/em> You Can\u2019t Evict a Movement \u2013 From the Rise of the Refugee Movement in Germany to the Practice of Squatting<\/em> Overflowing the walls. The squatting is on the paths.<\/em> Hidden Histories of Resistance \u2013 The Diverse Heritages of Squatting in England<\/em> Squatting in Denmark<\/em> A history of urban squatting in Slovenia<\/em> Istanbul \u2013 Beyond Gezi<\/em> \u201cZad News\u201d \u2013 The occupation of Notre-Dame-des-Landes narrated through its weekly newspaper<\/em> The Revenge against the Commons<\/em> The economy of the squatters: How squatters live with less money and suffer less from the crisis<\/em> Squatting in Prague<\/em> Interview with a Seattle Squatter<\/em> Ireland\u2019s Autonomous Zones and Collectives<\/em> The hidden history of squatting in Ireland<\/em> Resisting evictions \u2013 Squatting in Rio de Janeiro as an alternative for housing<\/em> \u201cDas ist unser Haus \u2026\u201d \u2013 Squatting in Germany from 1970 to the present (2018)<\/em> A Short History of Australian Squatting<\/em> Squatting in Greece: An open case with closed doors<\/em> Penal Archipelagoes, Incarcerated Immigrants and Squats<\/em> \u201cYou can\u2019t evict an idea\u201d \u2013 The criminalisation of the squatting movement in the Netherlands<\/em> Le occupazioni per la casa e per i centri sociali in Italia \u2013 Squatting for Not only liberated spaces: Italian Social Centres as Social Movement and Protest Actors<\/em> Squatting in France: Poverty, Housing Movement and Counterculture<\/em> Squatting in the Wake of the Economic Crisis in Spain: The Right to Housing as a Social Movement \u201cS\u00ed se puede, pero no quieren\u201d<\/em> A Short Talk on Squatting in the Spanish State<\/em> Never Rest in Peace! The Eviction and Resistance of Liebig 14 (Berlin)<\/em> A fast look at squatting in Rotterdam<\/em> Some recent mainstream media representations of squatting in Barcelona<\/em> Social Centers in Madrid<\/em> Refugees\u2019 Struggles in Athens: Voices from City Plaza Refugee Accommodation Space<\/em>
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\nEditors:
\nSqEK (squatting everywhere kollective) is a network of radical activists and researchers from diverse social and political movements around the world. The primary aim of the collective is to produce reliable and fine-grained knowledge about squatters\u00b4 movements as a public resource, especially for squatters and activists. Critical engagement, transdisciplinarity and comparative approaches are the bases of this project. SqEK holds yearly meetings which have thus far taken place in Madrid, Milano, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, K\u00f8benhavn, Roma, New York, Rotterdam, Praha and Catania.
\nMore info can be found at http:\/\/sqek.squat.net<\/p>\n
\nSqEK-Kollective<\/p>\n
\nNapuli Paul Langa<\/p>\n
\nColectivo Hinundzur\u00fcck (Berlin)<\/p>\n
\nElisabeth Lorenzi<\/p>\n
\nneedlecollective<\/p>\n
\nFrisk Flugt<\/p>\n
\nTina Steiger<\/p>\n
\nsome comrades<\/p>\n
\nMargot Verdier<\/p>\n
\nzadforever<\/p>\n
\nClaudio Catteneo<\/p>\n
\nArno\u0161t Nov\u00e1k and Jan Trnka<\/p>\n
\nmujinga<\/p>\n
\nFreda Hughes<\/p>\n
\nAlan MacSimoin<\/p>\n
\nJuliana Canedo and Julia Caminha<\/p>\n
\nazozomox<\/p>\n
\nIain McIntyre<\/p>\n
\nNick Souzas<\/p>\n
\nSutapa Chattopadhyay<\/p>\n
\nDeanna Dadusc<\/p>\n
\nhousing and Social Centers in Italy<\/em>
\nEliseo Fucolti<\/p>\n
\nGianni Piazza<\/p>\n
\nThomas Aguilera, Florence Bouillon,
\nBaptiste Colin and C\u00e9cile P\u00e9chu<\/p>\n
\nJulia Lledin<\/p>\n
\nMiguel Martinez<\/p>\n
\nLucrezia Lennert<\/p>\n
\nAMADOK<\/p>\n
\nGroup Against Criminalization<\/p>\n
\nAlan W. Moore<\/p>\n
\nCity Plaza<\/p>\n