E.T.C. Dee

In Squatting and the State, Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Marc L. Roark propose a new theory to analyse how states approach the issue of homeless people squatting on land. Their approach is called Resilient Property and draws upon the different conceptual frameworks of ‘wicked problems’ (based on Ritterl and Webber), sustainability theory, fiduciary theor...

https://napolimonitor.it/general-strike-now-la-situazione-degli-scioperi-nel-regno-unito/

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/february/cruel-and-usual-punishment

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2020/08/06/hs2-high-speed-high-tension/

Ten people who have squatted in or around Rotterdam were asked four questions. The questions were as follows: 1/ When did you start squatting? 2/What did squatting help you accomplish? 3/ Got a good story from your squatting times? 4/ How do you see the squatting movement now?

In this chapter, E. T. C. Dee examines the contexts, cycles and institutionalisation of the squatters’ movement in Rotterdam, through the lens of squatted social centres (SSCs). Despite the underground and subcultural nature of this movement, with the sizeable majority of squats being privately residential, SSCs are investigated as far as they are...

This chapter suggests an interpretation of the contexts, cycles and institutionalisation of the squatters’ movement in Brighton since the 1970s. First, squatting for living is explored as it becomes politicised. Second, the author determines how squatted and non-squatted autonomous social centres were rooted in Brighton. The criminalisation of squa...

Rotterdam has a rich and diverse history of squatting. As well as countless houses, many venues and other projects came from the movement. If you know where to look, the city is full of stories. This book will give you one version of this colourful past, from one squat researcher’s perspective. Read about everything from the Aktiekomittee Progasta...

A common view in social movement theory is that institutionalization signals the decline and possibly the end of a radical social movement. To put it in a nutshell, having arisen spontaneously as the result of a combination of factors, a movement gathers steam and puts people on the street in protests and demonstrations, before consolidating power...

This article assesses recent improvements to Cohen's originalformulation of the concept of moral panic. A case study is made of amoral panic generated in the Dutch media regarding three accusationsmade by the police concerning booby traps and weapons caches in thesquats of Amsterdam. These claims, whilst shown to be fantastical innature, gave crede...

https://www.cnsjournal.org/the-vacancy-crunch-the-current-housing-crisis-in-the-netherlands-and-the-repression-of-squatting/

This article assesses recent improvements to Cohen’s original formulation of the concept of moral panic. A case study is made of a moral panic generated in the Dutch media regarding three accusations made by the police concerning booby traps and weapons caches in the squats of Amsterdam. These claims, while shown to be fantastical in nature, gave c...

This article assesses squatted social centers in London as a means to understand the cycles, contexts and institutionalization processes of the local squatters movement. This diffuse social movement had its heyday in the late 1970s and early 1980s when there were 30,000 squatters and still exists today despite squatting in residential buildings bei...

This article brings together separate research on mainstream media discourses concerning the squatters' movements in Barcelona and England and Wales. The previous findings are introduced and then compared. Using the technique of Critical Discourse Analysis, we assess the presentations in the mainstream media of the squatters' movements and analyse...

This article analyses a database of 55 squatted social centres in Brighton. By virtue of their public nature, these projects provide a lens through which to examine the local political squatters' movement, which was often underground, private and hidden (residential squatting in contrast is not profiled). Several relevant non-squatted spaces are al...