Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene
This paper focuses on the London squat party scene, which emerged in the early 1990s, when the city’s urban fabric had been radically altered by industrial decline. The scene flourished in areas where the availability of abandoned resident units and warehouses allowed a number of artists and their f...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_12809 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.12809 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.12809 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/12809 2022-11-29T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fecy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Sadoux, Stéphane London squat parties disruption illegal events electronic music acid techno oral history historiography Londres disruption squat parties événements illégaux musiques électroniques acid techno histoire orale historiographie This paper focuses on the London squat party scene, which emerged in the early 1990s, when the city’s urban fabric had been radically altered by industrial decline. The scene flourished in areas where the availability of abandoned resident units and warehouses allowed a number of artists and their followers to reclaim parts of the city: the illegal occupancy of empty buildings enabled members of the community to find a home and to accommodate parties. This appropriation of spaces was not only a reaction to the opportunity generated by an interruption in the urban economic growth cycle: it was also a deliberate political act, an expression of the right to the city. Cet article s’intéresse à la scène « squat party » londonienne, laquelle émerge au début des années 1990, époque à laquelle le tissu urbain de la ville avait été profondément modifié par le déclin industriel. La scène s’est développée dans des quartiers où le nombre de logements et de bâtiments industriels abandonnés ont permis à des artistes et à leur public de reconquérir une partie de la ville : l’occupation illégale d’édifices vacants donnent l’occasion aux membres de cette communauté de trouver un logement et d’organiser des soirées. Mais cette appropriation des espaces n’était pas une simple réaction à l’opportunité générée par une interruption du cycle de croissance économique de la ville : il s’agissait également d’un acte politique et d’une expression du droit à la ville. |
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London squat parties disruption illegal events electronic music acid techno oral history historiography Londres disruption squat parties événements illégaux musiques électroniques acid techno histoire orale historiographie Sadoux, Stéphane Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene |
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This paper focuses on the London squat party scene, which emerged in the early 1990s, when the city’s urban fabric had been radically altered by industrial decline. The scene flourished in areas where the availability of abandoned resident units and warehouses allowed a number of artists and their followers to reclaim parts of the city: the illegal occupancy of empty buildings enabled members of the community to find a home and to accommodate parties. This appropriation of spaces was not only a reaction to the opportunity generated by an interruption in the urban economic growth cycle: it was also a deliberate political act, an expression of the right to the city. |
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Sadoux, Stéphane |
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Sadoux, Stéphane |
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Sadoux, Stéphane |
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Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene |
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Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene |
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Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene |
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Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene |
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Disruption by Opportunity and by Design: The London Squat Party Scene |
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disruption by opportunity and by design: the london squat party scene |
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