{"product_id":"squatting-london","title":"Squatting London","description":"\u003cp\u003eSquatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised, stigmatised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the glittering façade of shiny new buildings, London is a network of vacant offices, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city's poorest and most determined citizens, exiled and increasingly pushed to the margins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an account of the real lives of the city's squatters: their ambitions and struggles. Squatting is a challenge to the logic of property which underpins the city. By finding refuge, staying put, creating spaces and participating in counter-cultures, squats are political acts. They sit in direct opposition to the speculation, gentrification and regeneration that controls London today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom wasted office blocks transformed into a life-saving homeless shelter, to temporary art exhibitions and raves; from an empty doctor's surgery, to a library closed by cuts; from mutual aid networks set up during the pandemic, to restaurants, shops, offices and pubs - \u003cem\u003eSquatting London\u003c\/em\u003e is an alternative, underground and rebellious ethnographic account of a city you thought you already knew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel Burgum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42850001158205,"sku":"9780745341439","price":46.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780745341439_dc1bc205-8fa6-4664-a68b-390adf306144.jpg?v=1767069334","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/squatting-london","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}