The antifascist blockades in Lund 1991-1993 : Shifting repertoires of contention between local cultures of protest and trans-local connections.
Pries, Johan LU and Brink Pinto, Andres LU
(2014)
12th International Conference on Urban History : Cities in Europe, Cities in the World
- Abstract
- This paper looks at the how a new kind of South Scandinavian radical left emerged around 1990. It argues that its repertoire of contention neither can be understood as simply a product of struggles in local contexts or as diffusion of an already existing repertoire through trans-local mobilisations. The contingent history of the counter-claims to the far right Charles XII march in Lund throughout 1980s produced Lund as a key site for intervention and experimentation by movements in the making. Experiences made in defence of squatted houses in Copenhagen gave the militant anti-fascists the upper hand against an unprepared police in Lund, as it was combined with local political imaginaries and practices. The trans-local linking of two... (More)
- This paper looks at the how a new kind of South Scandinavian radical left emerged around 1990. It argues that its repertoire of contention neither can be understood as simply a product of struggles in local contexts or as diffusion of an already existing repertoire through trans-local mobilisations. The contingent history of the counter-claims to the far right Charles XII march in Lund throughout 1980s produced Lund as a key site for intervention and experimentation by movements in the making. Experiences made in defence of squatted houses in Copenhagen gave the militant anti-fascists the upper hand against an unprepared police in Lund, as it was combined with local political imaginaries and practices. The trans-local linking of two different situated streams of struggles not only produced a new repertoire by assembling elements of both, but also seems to have been crucial in constructing a regional scale of intervention as crucial to the young antifascist movement.
By being part of the invention of a new kind of militant anti-fascist repertoire of contention the actors also reinvented themselves. The radical left was transformed by employing tested practices in this new political context. The experiences in Lund were part of a series of events that shaped the political imagination and repertoires of contention for the far left in Southern Scandinavia for at least a decade, and would resonate as a crucial historical lesson for longer than that. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/5148611
- author
- Pries, Johan
LU
and Brink Pinto, Andres
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- radical left, social movements, spatial claims, repertoires of contention, diffusion, trans-local connections, politics of scale, militant anti-fascism, Scandinavia, Copenhagen
- conference name
- 12th International Conference on Urban History : Cities in Europe, Cities in the World
- conference location
- Lisbon, Portugal
- conference dates
- 2014-09-05
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d1f12dab-e9e4-44dd-b997-6135f5d3e73b (old id 5148611)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 14:39:41
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 21:21:34
@misc{d1f12dab-e9e4-44dd-b997-6135f5d3e73b,
abstract = {{This paper looks at the how a new kind of South Scandinavian radical left emerged around 1990. It argues that its repertoire of contention neither can be understood as simply a product of struggles in local contexts or as diffusion of an already existing repertoire through trans-local mobilisations. The contingent history of the counter-claims to the far right Charles XII march in Lund throughout 1980s produced Lund as a key site for intervention and experimentation by movements in the making. Experiences made in defence of squatted houses in Copenhagen gave the militant anti-fascists the upper hand against an unprepared police in Lund, as it was combined with local political imaginaries and practices. The trans-local linking of two different situated streams of struggles not only produced a new repertoire by assembling elements of both, but also seems to have been crucial in constructing a regional scale of intervention as crucial to the young antifascist movement. <br/><br>
By being part of the invention of a new kind of militant anti-fascist repertoire of contention the actors also reinvented themselves. The radical left was transformed by employing tested practices in this new political context. The experiences in Lund were part of a series of events that shaped the political imagination and repertoires of contention for the far left in Southern Scandinavia for at least a decade, and would resonate as a crucial historical lesson for longer than that.}},
author = {{Pries, Johan and Brink Pinto, Andres}},
keywords = {{radical left; social movements; spatial claims; repertoires of contention; diffusion; trans-local connections; politics of scale; militant anti-fascism; Scandinavia; Copenhagen}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{The antifascist blockades in Lund 1991-1993 : Shifting repertoires of contention between local cultures of protest and trans-local connections.}},
year = {{2014}},
}