TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kadir, Nazima
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.7765/9781784997564
ID  - OAPEN ID: 608061
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1001278949
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32714
KW  - radical left
KW  - participant observation
KW  - squatters movement
KW  - anthropology
KW  - ethnography
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32714/2/XHTML5%20%2819%29.zip
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33555
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781784997564
TI  - The autonomous life?: Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdamnull
ER  - 
