The Ethics Of Space - Homelessness And Squatting In Urban England

ISBN: 9781912808281 出版年：2019 页码：281 Steph Grohmann HAU Books

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space, formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements thus become less than fully human, as they struggle to find a place where they can symbolically and physically exist. The Ethics of Space is an unprecedented account from an anthropologist who accidentally found herself homeless, studying what happens when homeless people organize to occupy abandoned properties. Set against the backdrop of economic crisis, austerity, and a disintegrating British state, Steph Grohmann describes a flourishing squatter community in the city of Bristol, and its eventual outlawing by this state. Contrary to a mainstream discourse that seeks to divide squatters into the 鈥榙eserving鈥?homeless and 鈥榰ndeserving鈥?activists, Grohmann shows that squatters may in fact be homeless people who, choose to challenge property and the State.