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This PhD research by Deanna Dadusc [pdf<\/a>] analyses how the criminalisation of the Amsterdam squatting movement works.
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ABSTRACT:
\nThe key research question addresses how criminalisation operates as a
\ntechnology of government, what kind of relations of power are constituted through this
\nprocesses, and how these are experienced and resisted. By paying attention to the
\nrelationship between politics, ethics and affects, the focus of this project is on the
\nmicropolitics of criminalisation and its resistances, where affects, everyday lived
\nexperiences, and embodied relations of power and resistance play a central role.
\nThe analytical framework conceptualises power relations as heterogenous, productive
\nand constitutive forces rather than simply repressive and oppositional ones. This
\nenables to analyse how criminalisation works by deployment of legalistic tools and
\npolicing practices, by engendering contested moralities around private property and the
\nuses of urban spaces and by constituting specific modes of experiencing, acting and
\nresisting. Moreover, this perspective unfolds the complex relations between
\ncriminalisation and resistance: the focus is placed on the active and creative power of
\nheterogenous struggles that counter relations of power by means of protests and direct
\nactions, as much as by experimenting subversive conducts, social relations and modes
\nof life.
\nThis project engages with Activist-Research, aiming at producing a platform for
\ncollective reflection on how to resist criminalisation. Here resistance is not intended as
\nan object of study, but as an epistemological perspective: namely a mode of unmasking,
\nknowing and analysing how power operates. The empirical materials presented in the
\nform of Intermezzi (between chapters) and Boxes (within chapters) constitute composite
\nand collaborative process of reflection and narration.<\/p>\n

The Micropolitics of Criminalisation: Power, Resistance and the Amsterdam Squatting Movement<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n