eprintid: 4328
rev_number: 6
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datestamp: 2023-08-25 11:32:17
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Nielsen, Elias Harald
creators_id: S4041895
creators_email: e.h.nielsen@student.rug.nl
title: Resistance Spreading through Spaces:  The Transnational Diffusion Dynamics of Place-based Housing Movements
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: 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.
date: 2023
pages: 52
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Diederiks, H.C.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Bureau Onderwijs
tutors_email: H.C.Diederiks@rug.nl
security: public
keywords_local: Transnational social diffusion
keywords_local: Social movements
keywords_local: Affordable Housing
keywords_local: Space of flows
keywords_local: Neoliberalism
keywords_local: Referendums
language_iso: en
date_issued: 2023-08-11
citation:   Nielsen, Elias Harald  (2023) Resistance Spreading through Spaces: The Transnational Diffusion Dynamics of Place-based Housing Movements.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4328/1/Resistance%20Spreading%20through%20Spaces%20-%20Elias%20H.%20Nielsen%20-%20S4041895.pdf