This City Is An Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority

Samuel Burgum*

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    16 Citations (SciVal)
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)504-522
    Number of pages19
    JournalJournal of Urban History
    Volume48
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - May 2022

    Funding

    Many thanks to the Resistance Project, ASS (especially Myk), 56a Infoshop (especially Chris), Bishopsgate Institute (especially Stef), a.n.on, Alexandre Frediani, and the Black Cultural Archives for supporting this research. The article itself benefited from feedback via the Critical Friends peer review group, the Usable Past Workshop, and the Urban Institute at Sheffield, as well as constructive comments from Sarah Jankowitz (Belfast), Rowland Atkinson (Sheffield), and anonymous peer reviewers. My interest in the politics of the archive was first peaked by the work of Katy Harsant (Warwick). The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Many thanks to the Resistance Project, ASS (especially Myk), 56a Infoshop (especially Chris), Bishopsgate Institute (especially Stef), a.n.on, Alexandre Frediani, and the Black Cultural Archives for supporting this research. The article itself benefited from feedback via the Critical Friends peer review group, the Usable Past Workshop, and the Urban Institute at Sheffield, as well as constructive comments from Sarah Jankowitz (Belfast), Rowland Atkinson (Sheffield), and anonymous peer reviewers. My interest in the politics of the archive was first peaked by the work of Katy Harsant (Warwick).

    Keywords

    • activist archives
    • archival turn
    • archives
    • authority
    • capacity to aspire
    • colonialism
    • counter-narratives
    • Occupy London
    • social movements
    • squatting

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