The autonomous city: Towards a critical geography of occupation
This paper explores the recent resurgence of occupation-based practices across the globe, from the seizure of public space to the assembling of improvised protest camps. It re-examines the relationship between the figure of occupation and the affirmation of an alternative ‘right to the city’. The pa...
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| description | This paper explores the recent resurgence of occupation-based practices across the globe, from the seizure of public space to the assembling of improvised protest camps. It re-examines the relationship between the figure of occupation and the affirmation of an alternative ‘right to the city’. The paper develops a critical understanding of occupation as a political process that prefigures and materializes the social order which it seeks to enact. The paper highlights the constituent role of occupation as an autonomous form of urban dwelling, as a radical politics of infrastructure and as a set of relations that produce common spaces for political action. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:aba06b83-c3ee-4acd-bac3-f9ea533fe22d2022-03-27T03:23:14ZThe autonomous city: Towards a critical geography of occupationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:aba06b83-c3ee-4acd-bac3-f9ea533fe22dSymplectic Elements at OxfordSAGE Publications2014Vasudevan, AThis paper explores the recent resurgence of occupation-based practices across the globe, from the seizure of public space to the assembling of improvised protest camps. It re-examines the relationship between the figure of occupation and the affirmation of an alternative ‘right to the city’. The paper develops a critical understanding of occupation as a political process that prefigures and materializes the social order which it seeks to enact. The paper highlights the constituent role of occupation as an autonomous form of urban dwelling, as a radical politics of infrastructure and as a set of relations that produce common spaces for political action. |
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