SqEK (Squatting Europe Kollektive, later Squatting Everywhere Kollektive) was a transnational collective and network of academics and activists working on the phenomenon of squatting in a variety of fields, which include urban studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography and history.
SQEK Meetings & Conferences (2009–2018)
From 2009 to 2018, a meeting was held every year in a different European city with almost 200 participants, who were brought up to date on the situation of squats, squares and social centers almost everywhere in the world with short presentations and field reports: Prague (2017), Rotterdam (2016), Barcelona (2015), Rome (2014), Paris (2013), New York City (2012), Madrid (2012), Copenhagen (December 2011), Amsterdam (minisqek, 2011), Berlin (2011), London (2010), Milan (2009), Madrid (2009).
Books published by the SQEK Network
Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles (2013)
Published by minor compositions
The Squatters’ Movement in Europe: Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism (2014)
Published by Pluto
Making Room: Cultural Production in occupied Spaces (2015).
Edited by Alan Moore and Alan Smart
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Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy (2017)
Edited by Pierpaolo and Sutapa Chattopadhyay. Published by Routhledge
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The urban politics of squatters movements (2018)
Edited by Miguel A.Martínez López. Published by Palgrave
Fighting for spaces – Fighting for our lives (2018)
Edited by SqEK. Published by edition assemblage and SqEK
