Take back the city

Occupation, housing activism, and digital/material contention in post-crash Dublin

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12580751
AutoresMaedhbh Nic Lochlainn (0000-0002-5391-1401, Twitter (United States), autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume27
Fascículo3-4
Páginas394-412
Data de publicação2023-04-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-4813 • E-ISSN: 1470-3629
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13604813.2023.2197550
OpenAlexW4366826260
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas43

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

Business · Futures contract · Media studies · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporalities · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance