Müller, Nils (2024) Jump-starting a movement: intentions, approaches and experiences of a new generation of squatting collectives in the Netherlands. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
The last years have seen a new rise of squatting collectives across the Netherlands. Compared to the peak of the Dutch squatting movement in the 80s this new generation of collectives acts in a completely different political climate. With that comes different intentions, goals and approaches of the squatters that are more focused on community building, creating a movement and fighting for an inclusive right to the city. In this new generation structures for communication, reflection and learning from each other in order to avoid making the same mistakes are not as established as they could be. Through adopting a militant auto-ethnographic approach I try to start such a process by facilitating a reflexive discussion amongst three squatting collectives. I conclude with a number of learnings for approaching the stated objectives that have emerged from the discussions which can help maintaining healthier and more effective forms of activism. Furthermore I position today's squatting movement in a continuos development of squatting from the early 2000s until today with the help of diverse literature on squatting, social movements and urban politics. I name the stronger orientation towards squatting as a means for other goals and the combination of disruptive and dangerous dissent as the strategical characteristics of the movement and the strive for more publicity, the engagement in Community and Movement Building and the promotion of alternative culture as the main objectives of the new generation within this development.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Popken, B.F. |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2024 12:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2024 12:12 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4531 |
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