Acknowledgements | p. 7 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
Documenting Decline | p. 20 |
Defining Decline | p. 24 |
Why the Amsterdam Squatters' Movement? | p. 34 |
Chapter Overview | p. 36 |
Radicalization: The Birth of the Squatters' Movement | p. 43 |
Squatting: Individual Act or Basis of a Movement? | p. 45 |
From Squatting to Squatters | p. 54 |
From Squatter to Squatters' Movement | p. 63 |
Radicalization | p. 68 |
Queen for a Day | p. 81 |
Mistake or First Sign of Decline? | p. 83 |
Conclusion | p. 84 |
Luck Runs Out | p. 89 |
Hardening Narratives, Hardening Tactics | p. 91 |
Fear Itself | p. 92 |
Unchecked Radicalization and the Loss of Boundaries | p. 97 |
The Lucky Luijk | p. 100 |
Retaking the Luijk | p. 103 |
Holding on to the Luijk | p. 111 |
No More Luck, No More Luijk | p. 115 |
Who's the Boss? | p. 116 |
You Can't Live in a Symbol | p. 121 |
Gender Divides | p. 123 |
The Luijk as a Sign of Decline | p. 126 |
Conclusion | p. 129 |
Holiday Inn, Wijers Out | p. 133 |
Wijers Lives | p. 136 |
Life in the Wijers | p. 139 |
Holiday Away from Home | p. 144 |
Strategy | p. 152 |
Wijers Out, Holiday Inn | p. 159 |
Squatting or Shopkeeping? | p. 160 |
Wijers Decline, Why Decline? | p. 164 |
Conclusion | p. 166 |
Death in the Movement, Death of the Movement | p. 171 |
Fortress of Solitude | p. 174 |
Kok Fights: Death in the Movement | p. 177 |
Death and the Movement | p. 180 |
The Movement is Dead! Long Live Movement! | p. 184 |
Restoring the Movement | p. 187 |
From OZG to PVK | p. 196 |
Collapsing Old Buildings | p. 206 |
Vision of the New Movement | p. 208 |
Crazy Thursday | p. 210 |
Feeling Decline | p. 214 |
Conclusion | p. 216 |
The End: Now, Near, or Never? | p. 219 |
Are We Dead Yet? | p. 221 |
The Decline of a Political Movement | p. 225 |
The Ascendance of a Cultural Movement | p. 228 |
Silo Down | p. 230 |
Tourist Traps | p. 237 |
Squatters: from Tourists to Tourist Attraction | p. 239 |
Breeding Grounds of Contentment or Contempt? | p. 242 |
The Decline of Decline | p. 247 |
Conclusion | p. 248 |
Conclusion | p. 253 |
The Decline of Narratives and Narratives of Decline | p. 255 |
Strategic Crossroads and Identity Crises | p. 257 |
When Culture and Politics Collide and Collude | p. 259 |
Emotions, Public and Private | p. 261 |
Decline as Double Edged | p. 263 |
Defining Moments, Defining Movements | p. 267 |
Decline: The Offer | p. 270 |
List of photos | p. 275 |
References | p. 277 |
Index | p. 287 |
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