The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements

1. Introduction: The Politics of Squatting, Time Frames and Socio-Spatial Contexts
Miguel A. Martínez López

Part I. Case Studies

2. Socio-Spatial Structures and Protest Cycles of Squatted Social Centres in Madrid
Miguel A. Martínez López

3. Squatting Cycles in Barcelona: Identities, Repression and the Controversy of Institutionalisation
Galvão Debelle, Claudio Cattaneo, Robert González, Oriol Barranco, Marta Llobet

4. Shifting Socio-Spatial Contexts and the Space of Social Movements: Squatting in Seville
Ibán Díaz-Parra, Miguel A. Martínez López

5. Occupations of Housing and Social Centers in Rome: A Durable Resistance to Neoliberalism and Institutionalization
Pierpaolo Mudu, Luisa Rossini

6. The Squatting Movement(s) in Paris: Internal Divides and Conditions for Survival
Thomas Aguilera

7. The Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969–2016)
Armin Kuhn

8. Cycles of the Copenhagen Squatter Movement: From Slumstormer to BZ Brigades and the Autonomous Movement
Tina Steiger

9. The Political Squatters’ Movement and Its Social Centres in the Gentrifying City of Rotterdam
E. T. C. Dee

10. The Ebb and Flow of Resistance: The Squatters’ Movement and Squatted Social Centres in Brighton
E. T. C. Dee

Part II. Comparisons

11. More than Four Decades of Squatting: Cycles, Waves and Stages of Autonomous Urban Politics in European Cities
Gianni Piazza, Miguel A. Martínez López

12.
Keep Your Piece of Cake, We’ll Squat the Bakery! Autonomy Meets Repression and Institutionalisation
Luisa Rossini, azozomox, Galvão Debelle

13. Squatted Social Centres and the Housing Question
Robert González, Ibán Díaz-Parra, Miguel A. Martínez López

Keywords: Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Politics, Social Policy