Small People, Small Things: Punk, Alter-Globalization, & What Comes Next

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SQUAT, or the Radical Community Builders of Reunified Berlin

Maya Green

6 episodes

9 months ago

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is known around the world as marking the triumph of the West and the fall of communism. However, when we zoom into the neighborhoods surrounding this infamous concrete structure, we see a different story... of radical young people who squatted empty buildings to explore alternatives to capitalism, express queer identities, and claim agency in a time of massive global change. With the help of a dynamic cast of former squatters, punks, and dreamers, Maya Justine Green integrates academic theory and personal narrative to tell a story of what people built for themselves in a city's "empty" spaces — and what it might teach us about how to navigate the world’s current crises.

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Small People, Small Things: Punk, Alter-Globalization, & What Comes Next

SQUAT, or the Radical Community Builders of Reunified Berlin

38 minutes 57 seconds

1 year ago

Small People, Small Things: Punk, Alter-Globalization, & What Comes Next

Berlin was far from the only city in the late 20th century dealing with drastic economic change. In the series finale of SQUAT, Maya crosses an ocean and a continent to explore how people utilized empty space to resist neoliberalism in a city quite close to home: San Francisco. Beyond rising housing prices, what connected Berlin and the Bay Area, you might ask? Surprisingly, punk music! In this episode, Maya examines the way countercultural exchange fostered transnational connections in this moment of immense global transition.

Citations:

https://koepi137.net/history.html
https://www.last.fm/music/Lorena+&+The+Bobbits
https://robinballiger.com/komotion/
"Bolt Cutters and the Politics of Expropriation: Homes Not Jails, Urban Squatting, and Gentrification" in Cooking up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification by Sean Parson (2018)
“Transnational Justice, Counterpublic Spheres, and Alter-Globalization.” by Nikita Dhawan (article in Localities, 2012)
“Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization? Mapping the Political Ideology of the Global Justice Movement” by Manfred Steger & Erin K. Wilson (article in International Studies Quarterly, 2012)

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