Public Goods versus Economic Interests

Freia Anders is Chair of Student Counselling and Lecturer, History Department, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. Alexander Sedlmaier is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Bangor University.

1. Introduction: Global Perspectives on Squatting

[Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier]

Part I: Crossing Hemispheres: Beyond Historiographical Divides

2. Squatting, North, South and Turnabout: A Dialogue Comparing Illegal Housing Research

[Thomas Aguilera and Alan Smart]

3. Squatting in the US: What Historians Can Learn from Developing Countries

[Jason Jindrich]

4. Squatting and Encroachment in British Colonial History

[Robert Home]

Part II: Emerging Economies: Between Both Worlds

5. Squatting and Urban Modernity in Turkey

[Ellinor Morack]

6. Beyond Insurgency and Dystopia: The Role of Informality in Brazil’s Twentieth-Century Urban Formation

[Brodwyn Fischer]

7. "Right to the City": Squatting, Squatters and Urban Change in Franco’s Spain

[Inbal Ofer][

8. Unlicensed Housing as Resistance to Elite Projects: Squatting in Seoul in the 1960s and 1970s

[Erik Mobrand]

9. Living on the Edge: The Ambiguities of Squatting and Urban Development in Bucharest

[Ioana Florea and Mihail Dumitriu]

10. Informal Settlements in Bangkok: Origins, Features, Growth and Prospects

[Yap Kioe Sheng with Kittima Leeruttanawisut]

Part III: Highly Industrialised Countries: Insecure Tenure Under Conditions of Affluence

11. "The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had"?: Squatting in England in the 1970s

[John Davis]

12. Squatting in the Netherlands: The Social and Political Institutionalization of a Movement

[Hans Pruijt]

13. Squatting and Gentrification in East Germany Since 1989/90

[Andrej Holm and Armin Kuhn]