Media coverage of Squatting (in Spain

One of the chapters of our collective book (Adell and Martinez eds. 2004 ¿Dónde están las llaves? Madrid: La Catarata) deals seriously with the analysis of media coverage of squatting in Spain through the newspaper El País. For those who can read Spanish, the reference is:

Author: Javier Alcalde Villacampa

Title: LA BATALLA DE LOS MEDIOS: LA DEFINICIÓN DE LA PROBLEMÁTICA OKUPA EN LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN DE MASAS*

Pages: 227-266

http://www.catarata.org/libro/mostrar/id/205


Google Books has scanned part of the book, so you can have a look:

http://books.google.es/books?id=4cEozFIcYssC&printsec=frontcover&dq=adell+martinez+donde+est%C3%A1n+las+llaves&source=bl&ots=ZKeSj0ZeAk&sig=XY-zkXpQ8pSoCnEO_atzYGZJi_E&hl=es&ei=dHf6S9nWIpfc_Qab1PjgCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false


and the link to the DOC file of the chapter:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dijlm0qmrjy

Other resources

- Websites with related content
- Links to iniciatives which share goals with the SQeK
- Other resources who might be interesting

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Squatting in comparative perspective

- Map & Database (or Census) recording all the experiences of squatting at each
country
- Public opinion survey on squatting and housing policies.
- Size and volume of squatting in each country
- Ideological controversies and orientations within SC movement across the EU
- Legal frameworks, their change over time and across countries.

Empirical case-studies.

- Formal and informal ways of organization; decision-making processes
- Economic dimension of SC and role as providers of income
- Self-knowledge (reflexivity) and internal contradictions (inter-generational
relations and activists' memory, gender conflicts and homophobia, etc.)
- Class composition and subjectivities within SC
- Post-class social identities (precarious workers, queers, etc.)

SC/Squats’ networks, politics and culture

- Trans/local connections between SC and squatted houses
- Trans/national connections. Political coordination: SC/squats, political parties
and alterglobal movements
- Collective actions and public expression (demonstrations, media, etc.)
- Squatters as producers of knowledge and cultural innovators (alternative media,
etc.)

Analysis of “conflicts” and “dynamics.”

- Processes of mobilization and political radicalization; local relationships with
neighborhoods
- Which squatting experiences were most successful and why?
- How do squatters use the 'construction of social needs' as a claim to develop their
projects; Political trends and practices in SC and squats.
- How do social and political actors recognise and legitimise squatting?
- Processes of Repression/criminalization or negotiation.

Long and medium term structural factors that make squatting possible.

- Historical perspective on squatting (since WW2)
- Housing policies and underlying ideologies
- Urban spaces, urban development and/or renewal, and patterns of ownership.
- Role of SC in post-welfare state policies
- Spatial transformation influenced by squatters

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f.e. Compilation of videos of protests related to squatting
This one might fall under the tag of "SC/Squats’ networks, politics and culture", more precisly "Collective actions and public expression (demonstrations, media, etc.)"

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Name of the video/audio/document

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Welcome

Dear visitor,

This website was created in order to gather resources related to squatting and social centers movements around Europe or elsewhere.

About The SQEK:
Squatting Europe is a research network focusing on the squatters' movement. Our aim is to produce reliable and fine-grained knowledge about this movement. Critical engagement, transdisciplinarity and comparative approaches are the bases of our project. The group is an open transnational collective (SQEK1) whose members represent a diversity of disciplines and fields of interest seeking to understand the issues associated with squats and social centres across the European Union.

More information on Squatting Europe Research Agenda at:
http://www.miguelangelmartinez.net/IMG/pdf/2009_SQEK__7_Dec_.pdf