‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentig
In the early 1990s, several hundreds of predominantly working-class British and Irish youths moved to Leiden to work as seasonal laborers in the region’s floral industry. Because it was difficult to gain access to regular housing, a large number of them squatted houses in and around the city. Local...
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doaj-b6bd429cf30e4f5e959fbee2410007d62021-10-02T17:38:18ZengOpen JournalsTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis1572-17012468-90682020-10-0117210.18352/tseg.1063‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentigElisa Hendriks0Blerina Nimanaj1Bart van der Steen2Leiden UniversityUniversiteit van AmsterdamLeiden UniversityIn the early 1990s, several hundreds of predominantly working-class British and Irish youths moved to Leiden to work as seasonal laborers in the region’s floral industry. Because it was difficult to gain access to regular housing, a large number of them squatted houses in and around the city. Local newspapers paid much attention to the British squatters, who were often described as organizers of rave parties, consumers of illicit drugs and causers of noise complaints. The squatters tried to counter this image, but had only limited access to the media. Based on a systematic analysis of 588 Leidsch Dagblad news reports, debates in the local squatter magazine De Peueraar and six semi-structured interviews with British and Leiden squatter veterans, this paper reconstructs the struggle over the image of ‘the’ British squatter in Leiden during the 1990s. It argues that squatters were only moderately successful in countering the image of noisy ‘party squatters’ and presenting themselves as constructive neighborhood activists, in part because the squatter scene moved between social movement and subculture.https://openjournals.nl/index.php/tseg/article/view/8330SquattingMigrationUrban movementsRave musicLeiden |
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‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentig |
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‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentig |
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‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentig |
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‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentig |
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‘Zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ Britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in Leiden tijdens de jaren negentig |
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‘zodra wij er zijn, komen de roddels op gang.’ britse krakers en de strijd om beeldvorming in leiden tijdens de jaren negentig |
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In the early 1990s, several hundreds of predominantly working-class British and Irish youths moved to Leiden to work as seasonal laborers in the region’s floral industry. Because it was difficult to gain access to regular housing, a large number of them squatted houses in and around the city. Local newspapers paid much attention to the British squatters, who were often described as organizers of rave parties, consumers of illicit drugs and causers of noise complaints. The squatters tried to counter this image, but had only limited access to the media. Based on a systematic analysis of 588 Leidsch Dagblad news reports, debates in the local squatter magazine De Peueraar and six semi-structured interviews with British and Leiden squatter veterans, this paper reconstructs the struggle over the image of ‘the’ British squatter in Leiden during the 1990s. It argues that squatters were only moderately successful in countering the image of noisy ‘party squatters’ and presenting themselves as constructive neighborhood activists, in part because the squatter scene moved between social movement and subculture. |
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