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The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
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The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) open access license. 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 over three years. During that time she resided as a squatter in four different houses, worked on two successful anti-gentrification campaigns, was evicted from two houses and jailed once. With this unique perspective, Kadir systematically examines the contradiction between what people say and what they practice in a highly ideological radicalleftcommunity. The squatters' movement defines itself primarily as anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian, and yet is perpetually plagued by the contradiction between this public disavowal and the maintenance of hierarchy and authority within the movement. This study analyses how this contradiction is then reproduced in different micro-social interactions, examining the methods by which people negotiate minute details of their daily lives as squatter activists in the face of a fun house mirror of ideological expectations reflecting values from within the squatter community, that, in turn, often refract mainstream, middle-class norms.


Using a unique critical perspective informed by gender and subaltern studies, this study contributes to social movements literature through a meticulous analysis of the production of power and hierarchy in a social movement subculture.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 7, 2016
ISBN9781784998004
The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
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Nazima Kadir

Nazima Kadir is an urban anthropologist based in London

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