Occupying London: Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility

ISBN-13: 9781138291539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 168 str.

Sam Burgum

Opis

Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face of global resistances and movements which followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8? Based on ethnographic research with the Occupy movement in London – as a case study of one post-crash attempt to bring alternatives about – this book argues that change was ultimately foreclosed by widespread ‘common sense’ limitations of what was considered possible after the crash.

 

O autorze

Sam Burgum is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, conducting research into squatting in the context of London’s housing crisis. You can follow Sam on Twitter (@sjburgum) or read more about the project at: samuelburgum.uk