Squatting in Europe. Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles

Hans Pruijt's opening chapter is an exception to the case study format in that it provides an overview of squatting across Europe, and deals more generally with the tensions around different approaches to squatting, problems of repression/legalisation, the dynamics of gentrification etc. The Squatting Europe Kollective, who have edited the book, write that they are interested in how 'academic boundaries [can be] continuously crossed' (p274) to 'shed light on [the repression of squatting in European countries] through the analysis of its different sides, contributions and involved social conflicts' (p273), which takes the form of what they term, 'necessary scientific intervention into current political debates' (p273).