‘Squat City’: Dublin’s temporary autonomous zone. Considering the temporality of autonomous geographies

McArdle, Rachel

doi:10.1080/13604813.2022.2082149

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“…Vacant lands were seen to give a “competitive advantage” against fully developed urban cores (DCC 2016:45), while temporary uses were selectively celebrated for their creative potential. Meanwhile, new housing movements, inspired by the La Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) and their “recuperation” of vacant housing in Spain, began to employ more radical temporary political occupations of vacant properties, alongside the resurgence of squatting (McArdle 2022; Nic Lochlainn 2023). Demands from some groups within the cultural sector also became more organised.…”

Section: Politicising Vacancy In Post‐crisis Dublin 2008–2017mentioning

confidence: 99%

Vacancy as Precarious Property in Dublin's Temporary Urbanism Moment

O'Callaghan

2023

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This paper makes a case for viewing vacancy as “precarious property” (Blomley 2020; Antipode 52[1]:36–57), i.e. less a material object defined by absence of use than the property relation (understood as a bundle of social, economic, legal, and political relationships) put under strain by the visibility of non‐use. Focusing on Dublin's temporary urbanism moment (2008–2017), the paper has two aims. Firstly, it gives a critical account of this recent urban history of experimentation, documenting how the possibilities of the period following the crash were (fore)closed through governmental interventions. Secondly, the empirical case is used to make a wider conceptual argument about the conjunctural role that vacancy plays in urbanisation and urban politics, developing three main arguments: that vacancy is a vulnerable axis within the ownership model of property; that claims to vacancy are articulated in conjunctural and contextual ways; and that vacancy epitomises the dual nature of precarity.

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Section: Politicising Vacancy In Post‐crisis Dublin 2008–2017mentioning

confidence: 99%