(Ebook) Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin by Alexander Vasudevan ISBN 9781118750599, 1118750594

(Ebook) Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin by Alexander Vasudevan ISBN 9781118750599, 1118750594

• Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the city
• Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the “right to the city” and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanisms
• Examines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformation
• Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wake
• Draws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany