Welcome to mid-seminar with Nathan Siegrist! The title is "Autonomous Space: Squatting, Urban Movements, and Creative Urban Governance in Contemporary Ljubljana".
Nathan Siegrist is a PhD student in sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. In his research, Nathan seeks to investigate how urban movements, squats and autonomous spaces influence urban development in contemporary Europe. For these purposes, he has a particular interest in current developments in Central and Eastern Europe.
Miguel A. Martínez (BA-MA Sociology and Political Science, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain; PhD Political Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology at the IBF (Institute for Housing and Urban Research), Uppsala University (Sweden). He is the author of Squatters in the Capitalist City (Routledge, 2020), editor of The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements (Palgrave, 2018), and co-editor of Contested Cities and Urban Activism (Palgrave, 2019). Most of his publications are freely available at: www.miguelangelmartinez.net
Sarah Philipson is a PhD student in sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. In May 2024 she defends her PhD thesis, which examines how time and temporalities of migration are expressed and experienced among people who have sought asylum under the temporary law.