{"product_id":"squatting-london-the-politics-of-property-9780745341439","title":"Squatting London: The Politics of Property","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Timely and urgent ... challenges how we come to think about property and homeownership while reminding us that there are other ways of inhabiting and transforming the city' \u003c\/b\u003eAlexander Vasudevan, author of\u003ci\u003e The Autonomous City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The generative power of squatting lies at the core of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBurgum's beautiful book' \u003c\/b\u003eMichele Lancione, author of \u003ci\u003eFor a Liberatory Politics of Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Homes without people, people without homes. This book demonstrates that squatting is not just the correction of this unfair mathematics, but also the creation of collectivity in a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003econtext of dispossession' \u003c\/b\u003eRaquel Rolnik, author of \u003ci\u003eUrban Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Who deserves space? Who is entitled to home? In a powerful and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003esubversive account, Sam Burgum opens up the political space of the city as he takes us inside London's squats' \u003c\/b\u003eNicholas Blomley, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Squatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the glittering fa?ade, London is a network of vacant offices, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city's poorest and most determined citizens, exiled and increasingly pushed to the margins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is an account of the ambitions and struggles of the city's squatters. Squatting is a challenge to the logic of property so squats are by nature political acts. They sit in direct opposition to the speculation, gentrification and regeneration that controls London today. From office blocks transformed into a life-saving homeless shelter, to temporary art exhibitions, mutual aid networks, restaurants, shops, offices and pubs -- \u003ci\u003eSquatting London\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-hand account of the alternative, underground and rebellious city you thought you already knew. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Burgum\u003c\/b\u003e is an urban sociologist and the author of \u003ci\u003eOccupying London: Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam Burgum is an urban sociologist, currently conducting a Leverhulme-sponsored ethnographic project on squatting in the context of the UK's housing crisis. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOccupying London: Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for various journals, including \u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJournal for Cultural Research\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869235613970,"sku":"9780745341439","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_245a1a27-cbf3-479a-a1ae-52aa06af7891.jpg?v=1737751344","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/squatting-london-the-politics-of-property-9780745341439","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}