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Culture Wars, Revanchism, Moral Panics and the Creative City. A Reconstruction of a Decline of Tolerant Public Policy: The Case of Dutch Anti-squatting Legislation

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Squatting became illegal in the Netherlands on 1 October 2010. The paper examines the dynamics involved. Theoretically drawing on debates about culture wars, revanchism, moral panics and the creative city, it is based on participant observation in squatter meetings, debates with politicians, a parliament hearing, lobbying meetings and various informal encounters, on a survey and on a collection of documents. A key mechanism that the paper explores is the following. Strategies of resistance that seem more or less manageable in the local context of a creative city can, when they backfire, cause a moral panic on the national level. This provides ammunition for revanchist politicians.

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  • Hans Pruijt, 2013. "Culture Wars, Revanchism, Moral Panics and the Creative City. A Reconstruction of a Decline of Tolerant Public Policy: The Case of Dutch Anti-squatting Legislation," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(6), pages 1114-1129, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:50:y:2013:i:6:p:1114-1129
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098012460732
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    1. Gwen Van Eijk, 2010. "Exclusionary Policies are Not Just about the ‘Neoliberal City’: A Critique of Theories of Urban Revanchism and the Case of Rotterdam," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 820-834, December.
    2. Hans Pruijt, 2004. "Squatters in the creative city: rejoinder to Justus Uitermark," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(3), pages 699-705, September.
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