Occupation Culture

Description

Occupation Culture is the story of a journey through the world of recent

political squatting in Europe, told by a veteran of the 1970s and ''80s New

York punk art scene. It is also a kind of scholar adventure story. Alan W.

Moore sees with the trained eye of a cultural historian, pointing out

pasts, connections and futures in the creative direct action of today''s

social movements. Occupation Culture is based on five years of travel and

engaged research. It explicates the aims, ideals and gritty realities of

squatting. Despite its stature as a leading social movement of the late

twentieth century, squatting has only recently received scholarly

attention. The rich histories of creative work that this movement enabled

are almost entirely unknown.