Anarchist punks resisting gentrification: Countercultural contestations of space in the New Berlin

International Journal of the Humanities

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 19-44

  Drissel, David ^a  

^a Iowa Central Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Anarcho punks; Anti gentrification movement; Berlin wall; Berlin youth; Countercultures; Gentrification; German reunification; Kreuzberg; Ossis; Punk rock; Socio spatial; Urban space; Wall in the head; Wessis; Yuppies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863688742     PISSN: 14479508     EISSN: 14479559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v08i10/42992     Document Type: Article

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