The Autonomous Life?: Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Authority in the Squatters Movement in Amsterdam (Contemporary Anarchist Studies) - Hardcover

Kadir, Nazima

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1628924993 ISBN 13: 9781628924992

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2015

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Contemporary Anarchist Studies is an impressive and much needed series. It brings together first-rate scholarly work on the history and theory of anarchism, connects theory and practice, and clarifies the claim of the anarchist tradition to urgent contemporary relevance. With all titles available under a Creative Commons license, the series is itself an example of anarchy in action. --Professor Stuart White, Oxford University, author of Equality (2006)

This is far and away the best ethnography of a squatters movement, or really any European anti-authoritarian movement, I have yet to come across. Nazima Kadirs bold interrogation of the concept of ""autonomy"" alone is well worth the ticket. But the book is much more. Combining vivid and sensitive ethnography with a willingness to ask challenging and fundamental questions about contemporary anti-authoritarian ideas, this book does everything good anthropology - the best anthropology - should do. I hope it provides a model for the ethnography of social movements in the future. --David Graeber, Professor of Anthropology, The London School of Economics, UK

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The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters community for 3.5 years. She resided as a squatter in 4 different houses, worked on 2 successful anti-gentrification campaigns, was evicted from 2 houses, and was jailed once. With this unique perspective, Kadir focuses on how people in this overtly anarchist movement constantly disavow while silently maintain hierarchy and authority. Specific squatter skills and particular performances of hostility are classified as squatter capital. Kadir systematically examines the contradiction between what people say and what they practice in a highly ideological radical left community Kadirs observations are directly born out of an intense ethnographic and personal encounter with the world of the squatters which sharply contrasts with social movement studies, which has primarily been written from the disciplinary perspectives of political science and sociology and has ignored micro-dynamics. Using a unique critical perspective informed by gender and subaltern studies, Kadir contributes to social movements literature through a meticulous analysis of micro-social dynamics of power in the internal dynamic of the squatters movement.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1628924993
• ISBN 13: 9781628924992
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256