{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/664e2d9873726900125eca30/6655571abcc0a70012715364?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"“There Are Other Ways”: Reunification & Radical Imagination as Resistance","description":"<p>In this episode, we dive deeper into the fall of the Berlin Wall, examining how a moment of such geopolitical significance was felt at the neighborhood level. Through interviews, Maya explores the frustration and anger that German reunification inspired and how squatting emerged as a tactic to both resist the status quo and imagine new ways of living.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Citations:</p><ul><li><em>Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement </em>by Geronimo (2012)</li><li><em>Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin </em>by Alexander Vasudevan (2015)</li><li>\"East and West Squatters in Berlin: Experiences Before and After the Collapse of the Wall\" by Hermine De Soto (report for National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1992)</li><li>\"Urban Renewal and the End of Social Housing: The Roll Out of Neoliberalism in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg\" by Andrej Holm (article in <em>Social Justice</em>, 2006)</li><li>\"Squatting and Urban Renewal: The Interaction of Squatter Movements and Strategies of Urban Restructuring in Berlin\" by Andrej Holm &amp; Armin Kuhn (article in <em>International Journal of Urban and Regional Research</em>, 2010)</li><li>“The Transition from People’s Property to Private Property: Consequences of the Restitution Principle for Urban Development and Urban Renewal in East Berlin’s Inner-City Residential Areas\" by Bettina Reimann (article in <em>Applied Geography, </em>1997)</li><li>Globalization and Germany, Spring 2023 (Stanford in Berlin class taught by Wolf-Fabian Hungerland)</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Access episode transcripts and more <em>SQUAT</em> content at <a href=\"http://mayajustinegreen.com/squat\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mayajustinegreen.com/squat</a>!</p>","author_name":"Maya Green"}