Bart van der Steen studied history at Leiden University and did his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. His research has focused radical labor movements, radical philosophy and postwar social movements. He published in Dutch on radical labor movements and in German on the philosophies of Butler, Negri and Žižek. He currently works on a comparative study on squatter and autonomous movements in Amsterdam and Hamburg and just finished a history of Dutch trotskyism.
The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present
SKU: 9781604866834
Editors: Bart van der Steen, Ask Katzeff, and Leendert van Hoogenhuijze • Preface by George Katsiaficas • Foreword by Geronimo
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781604866834
Published: 8/2014
Format: Paperback, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 336
Subjects: History-Europe/Politics
Praise
“One of the best books on squatting in English language. An immensely
useful, wide-ranging, and insightful book about a fascinating part of
radical history. PM Press has finally made it possible for American
activists to understand the hidden history of housing.“
—Andrej Grubacic, coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
“This is a wonderful and important book. It makes key contributions
to how we should think about squatting as well as how we should think
about the best way to study social movements. Insightful, provocative,
and educational, it provides a broad spectrum of cases and perspectives
on squatter movements in Europe.“
—Linus Owens, author of Cracking under Pressure
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