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The paper presents the constitution of the “political” in two cases of political squatting in Hungary after 1989: the Centrum squatter group’s occupations in 2004-2006, and the homeless advocacy group The City is for All’s occupations in... more
An ethnographic study into the poverty of white people in post-apartheid South Africa. Two informal settlements are the focus of this research - Westfort, a mixed squatter settlment in an old Leprasorium and Sonskyn Hoekie, a care centre... more
The history of squatting in Paris is animated by a conflict between the autonomous and the institutionalized wings of the squatting movement, mainly between artists, autonomous and Housing Movement activists. This conflict opposes diverse... more
The PDP (GIZ) has released the publication “Cairo’s Informal Areas Between Urban Challenges and Hidden Potentials. Facts. Voices. Visions.” Published in July 2009, the book provides a comprehensive look at development in the informal... more
Giving the poor legal title to the lands they occupy extra-legally (informally) has been widely promoted by the World Bank and by best-selling author Hernando de Soto as a means of addressing both poverty and the scarcity of affordable... more
Özet 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında İstanbul’un çeşitli bölgelerinde kaybedilen Balkan toprakları ve Anadolu’dan gelen aileler tarafından yoksul yerleşimleri inşa edilmeye başlanır. Teşvikiye, Nişantaşı, Şişli, Fulya, Ihlamur, Dikilitaş,... more
This is a co-edited book with Pierpaolo Mudu. We worked on behalf of 'Squatting Europe Kollective (Sqek)'. The book is published with Routledge: Space, Place, Politics Series [ISBN # 9781315673301] Abstract: The book, Migrations,... more
PRAXIS - The Official Peer-Reviewed Journal of the Alumni for International Human Rights Law. This is the official version of the inaugural issue of PRAXIS. This official version supersedes and/or modifies accordingly any and all... more
Topos published in issue 109 excerpts of the interview held with the Dutch landscape architect Adriaan Geuze in the book "Designing Change".
From the late 1970s and early 1980s, the city center of Oslo was for several years in a row affected by riots on the night to May 1st (The International Workers' Day). As a result of a larger number of fines and arrests after the uprising... more
Edited version of published paper presented at 'Is Black and Red Dead?' Conference, Centre for the Study of Social and Global and Justice (CSSGJ) University of Nottingham, 7-8 September, 2009... more
A partir d'une enquête empirique sur l'émergence du mouvement squat à Genève, l'article propose une réflexion plus générale pour une pragmatique de l'ordre urbain. Dans un premier temps, il explore les apports de la sociologie pragmatique... more
El derecho a la ciudad se ha convertido en un marco de significado tan amplio que ha perdido parte de su sentido y de su fuerza transformadora. Con tal de aproximarnos a una experiencia que pueda conectar con el concepto primigenio de... more
Des politiques de résorption des bidonvilles sont mises en œuvre depuis le début des années 1960 à Madrid. Depuis 1999 notamment, des milliers de familles ont été relogées dans du logement public dans le parc diffus. Pourtant, plus de 10... more
This chapter examines the housing struggles of squatters who settled in a public park and heritage site in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, in order to be evicted by the state and resettled to state-built social housing. By analyzing the moral... more
To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting... more
This paper proposes an analysis of internal migrants as a social category whose qualities and historic tendencies could make it a new middle class. These qualities include their entrepreneurial potential and increasing role as producers... more
Squatters’ movement evolved unevenly across European cities over the last four decades, although there are recent attempts to understand their patterns and commonalities as well as their relations with other social movements. A very much... more
This paper discusses the changing urban policy framework in Turkey through a detailed analysis of a unique coupling of neoliberalism and Islamism. In this, rather than political projects with clear ultimate ends, both neoliberalism and... more
La okupación, acto marginalizado y enmarcado durante muchos años a y hacia una comunidad concreta y señalada, en los últimos años ha visto aumentado sus efectivos; lo cual significa que capas más amplias de la po-blación la apropian y la... more
Squatters and squatting are very different in the Global North and Global South: for that reason, some scholars argue these situations are not comparable. Here, we try to go beyond this view and argue that toleration can be considered as... more
Si les expulsions sont loin de constituer un phénomène récent, tout porte à croire qu’elles prennent aujourd’hui une ampleur inédite, dans les pays du Sud comme du Nord, notamment suite à la succession de diverses crises. Des... more
Este artículo se propone analizar las implicancias y los alcances de un caso de apropiación y resignificación espacial mediante prácticas circenses en la ciudad de Rosario (Argentina). A partir del seguimiento del desarrollo y las... more
This booklet is the result of a one-week intensive workshop held in April 2015 in the Cambridge Occupation in Central São Paulo. It was organized in close collaboration with MSTC, the Movimento Sem Teto do Centro, and aimed to contribute... more
Revised broad introduction to 1968-1982 Southside "Los Sures" Williamsburg. Examines the real and alleged violence around a seemingly quotidian setting in Williamsburg Brooklyn, and how it, along with the conflict between Johnson's War on... more
This article assesses squatted social centres in London as a means to understand the cycles, contexts and institutionalisation processes of the local squatters movement. This diffuse social movement had its heyday in the late 1970s and... more
Squatters' organizations are a notable driving force of civil society movements in Nepal. Their alliance, working on urban squatter issues, has been trying to change their strategy from one of confrontation with government authorities to... more