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Take back the city: occupation, housing activism, and digital/material contention in post-crash Dublin
Nic Lochlainn, Maedhbh
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Keywords :
housing activism; digital geographies; social media; occupation; urban politics; right to the city
Abstract :
[en] This paper adopts an empirical focus on the everyday practices of Take Back the City, a housing activist campaign in Summer 2018 in Dublin, as an illustration of occupations as digital/material contention. It outlines how the temporary political occupations of vacant buildings were organised and unfolded across a digital/material nexus. I argue that reading occupations as digital/material (a) extends understandings of how urban struggles actually take place in contemporary cities, and (b) highlights the central role of the digital in contentious space-times before, during, and in the wake of temporary political occupations. I use the Take Back the City campaign to explore the relationship between urban spaces, digital technologies, and contemporary housing movements. Echoing recent work on radical urban space-times, I emphasise the digital/material practices and temporalities of the Take Back the City campaign as a useful example for research on the makeshift, improvised, and often uncertain ways in which digital technologies and urban space are now enrolled in struggles over housing futures.
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Nic Lochlainn, Maedhbh ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Geography and Spatial Planning (DGEO)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Take back the city: occupation, housing activism, and digital/material contention in post-crash Dublin
Publication date :
In press
Journal title :
City
ISSN :
1470-3629
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom
Special issue title :
Critical geographies of occupation, trespass and squatting
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
IRC/GOIPG/2019/438 Geographies of digital protest: Social media and anti-austerity activism in post-financial crisis Ireland
Funders :
Irish Research Council
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