The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural community that defines itself as a social movement. While the majority of scholarly studies on this movement focus on its official face, on its front stage, this book concerns itself with the ideological and practical parad...
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| description | This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural community that defines itself as a social movement. While the majority of scholarly studies on this movement focus on its official face, on its front stage, this book concerns itself with the ideological and practical paradoxes at work within the micro-social dynamics of the backstage, an area that has so far been neglected in social movement studies. The central question is how hierarchy and authority function in a social movement subculture that disavows such concepts. The squatters’ movement, which defines itself primarily as anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian, is profoundly structured by the unresolved and perpetual contradiction between both public disavowal and simultaneous maintenance of hierarchy and authority within the movement. This study analyzes how this contradiction is then reproduced in different micro-social interactions, examining the methods by which people negotiate minute details of their daily lives as squatter activists in the face of a funhouse mirror of ideological expectations reflecting values from within the squatter community, that, in turn, often refract mainstream, middle class norms. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-335552025-01-23T09:25:09Z The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam Kadir, Nazima radical left participant observation squatters movement anthropology ethnography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFB Anarchism This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural community that defines itself as a social movement. While the majority of scholarly studies on this movement focus on its official face, on its front stage, this book concerns itself with the ideological and practical paradoxes at work within the micro-social dynamics of the backstage, an area that has so far been neglected in social movement studies. The central question is how hierarchy and authority function in a social movement subculture that disavows such concepts. The squatters’ movement, which defines itself primarily as anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian, is profoundly structured by the unresolved and perpetual contradiction between both public disavowal and simultaneous maintenance of hierarchy and authority within the movement. This study analyzes how this contradiction is then reproduced in different micro-social interactions, examining the methods by which people negotiate minute details of their daily lives as squatter activists in the face of a funhouse mirror of ideological expectations reflecting values from within the squatter community, that, in turn, often refract mainstream, middle class norms. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T14:17:19Z 2016 book 608061 OCN: 1001278949 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32714 9781784997564 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33555 eng Contemporary Anarchist Studies open access image/png image/png image/png image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781784997564 10.7765/9781784997564 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9781784997564 232 open access |
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