%D 2023
%T Resistance Spreading through Spaces:  The Transnational Diffusion Dynamics of Place-based Housing Movements
%L theses_frw4328
%X This study aims to explore transnational diffusion between place-based housing movements while relating it to neoliberalism’s effect on housing crises and the concept of space of flows and space of places. This qualitative study employs various data sources and its primary method is a manifest content analysis of interviews with activists from the housing movements Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen and Movimento Referando pela Habitação based in Berlin and Lisbon respectively. The findings of this study include proof for the occurrence of diffusion between the aforementioned  movements, an account of the similar nature of neoliberalism’s effect on affordable housing in Berlin and Lisbon, and how the idea of a referendum initiative and the internal organisational structure were diffused through three diffusion pathways. Additionally, the study presents new insight into the potential role of the characteristics of individual activists and social media in transnational diffusion processes. This study is relevant because it is the first to investigate the effect of Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen’s referendum success in other places. Furthermore, the application of the space of flows and the space of places provides a spatial dimension to diffusion studies by adding geography to a typically sociological field of study.
%A Elias Harald Nielsen