The Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969–2016)

azozomox,; Kuhn, Armin

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95314-1_7

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“…While grassroots resistance to urban privatisation dates back from the early 1970s in West Berlin, with the squatter movement reclaiming access to housing and experimenting with new forms of non-capitalist, collective life (Häberlen and Smith, 2014), the reunification process was accompanied by a new wave of squatting (Holm and Kuhn, 2011). The violent opposition of the German government and the decrease in urban land available marked the decline of the movement and led to a number of evictions (Azozomox and Kuhn, 2018; Karge, 2018), but its legacy is still visible in Berlin today. In West Berlin, many community gardens arose out of the counter-cultural squatter movement that opposed urban renewal policies of the 1970s and 1980s (Rosol, 2018).…”

Section: Community Food Spaces In Berlinmentioning

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‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces

Véron

2023

Environ Plan A

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The benefits of community-based, grassroots food practices, such as community gardens or kitchens, are widely acknowledged. However, they have also been shown to support neoliberal and exclusionary dynamics. This paper examines this contradiction on the ground by unpacking the processes and mechanisms through which these initiatives reproduce, reinforce or challenge social inequities and injustices in the city. It suggests the concept of community food space to look at the articulation of practices and intentions within these groups, and highlight emancipatory practices situated around food rather than simply about food. The paper draws upon an ongoing militant ethnography into community food spaces in Berlin, Germany. Exploring the complex and diverse landscape of Berlin food activism, it illuminates the ways in which food may be used to perpetuate unjust social configurations or, on the contrary, to advance social justice at both local and structural levels.

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Section: Community Food Spaces In Berlinmentioning

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‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces

Véron

2023

Environ Plan A

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“…Moreover, the rich interconnectedness among different struggles, including, for example, the anarchist and anti-authoritarian movements, the squatting movement, as well as Black and diaspora activism, has fostered the establishment of dense and thriving activist networks in the city (Florvil, 2020; Kuhn, 2018). These networks often provide migrant activists with support and opportunities to escape the exclusion and isolation that they face in the asylum shelters, which are often located in remote areas of Brandenburg (the state surrounding Berlin).…”

Section: Berlin and The Multiplicity Of Its Actors Opposing Border Re...mentioning

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Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition

Perolini

2023

Sociology

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Human rights often fall short of challenging oppression because they are enmeshed with conservative institutions, such as the law and the state. Despite these shortcomings, grassroots organisations contesting border regimes in Berlin often make use of human rights in their everyday mobilisation. They engage in autonomous forms of mobilisation outside the state and construct non-legal notions of human rights that are emancipatory for racialised migrants. However, these same organisations also address demands to state authorities by using legal notions of human rights. In this article, I draw on the framework focusing on abolition and non-reformist reforms, which have been developed by activists and scholars in their resistance to policing and the Prison-Industrial Complex. I innovatively extend its use to propose a nuanced understanding of grassroots approaches to human rights. Specifically, I argue that these approaches entail the concurrent pursuit of short-term reformist reforms and border abolition.

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Spatialising the collective: the spatial practices of two housing projects in Berlin

Jaureguiberry-Mondion

2022

Social & Cultural Geography

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The Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969–2016)

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces

‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces

Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition

Spatialising the collective: the spatial practices of two housing projects in Berlin

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