Mary Manjikian's book brings the 'property question' to the heart of critical debates on security. Manjikian offers a set of fascinating cases across Europe that illuminate important dynamics of contemporary securitizing practices. The securitization of squatting away from earlier social and economic policy debates is enacted across Europe in both similar and differentiated terms, drawing on national and local histories, current crises, and expert knowledge. At the same time, Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe opens an important discussion of desecuritization scenarios and political futures of the 'property question'.
-Claudia Aradau, King's College London
This book is a timely and probing analysis of the securitization of squatting. Analyzing modes of squatting, their politicizations and ways of governing them, Manjikian brings detailed insights in the growing securitization of housing. More generally, this book contributes in significant ways to our understanding of the transversal and pervasive nature of contemporary securitizing.
-Jef Huysmans, The Open University
Mary Manjikian's book brings the 'property question' to the heart of critical debates on security. Manjikian offers a set of fascinating cases across Europe that illuminate important dynamics of contemporary securitizing practices. The securitization of squatting away from earlier social and economic policy debates is enacted across Europe in both similar and differentiated terms, drawing on national and local histories, current crises, and expert knowledge. At the same time, Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe opens an important discussion of desecuritization scenarios and political futures of the 'property question'.
-Claudia Aradau, King's College London
This book is a timely and probing analysis of the securitization of squatting. Analyzing modes of squatting, their politicizations and ways of governing them, Manjikian brings detailed insights in the growing securitization of housing. More generally, this book contributes in significant ways to our understanding of the transversal and pervasive nature of contemporary securitizing.
-Jef Huysmans, The Open University
Manjikian endeavours to set out constructive and realistic evaluations of potential strategies from a securitization perspective, and in doing so casts considerable new light on the changing attitudes of the UK, Danish, French and Dutch states towards the perceived threat of the squatter. As such, this book does much to advance our understandings of the political discourses relating to squatting, and particularly their transnational character. It is an invaluable contribution to the literature on squatting, and will be a primary reference point for those exploring the regulation of squatting across Europe and elsewhere in the world. It deserves to be widely read.
- Lorna Fox O'Mahony,
Durham University