Luisa Rossini
Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Portugal

Luisa Rossini is is a post-doctoral researcher at the ICS, University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on the analysis of insurgent appropriation of urban public spaces and housing rights movements in cities such as Rome, Berlin, Barcelona and Lisbon. Her main publications are: "Occupations of Housing and Social Centers in Rome: A Durable Resistance to Neoliberalism and Institutionalization" and "Keep Your Piece of Cake, We’ll Squat the Bakery! Autonomy Meets Repression and Institutionalisation" (co-authored as chapters of the book, The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements, edited by Miguel A. Martínez, Palgrave) and “Negotiating (re)appropriation practices amid crisis and austerity” (International Planning Studies).

Miguel A. Martínez
Uppsala University, IBF - Institute for Housing and Urban Research
Sweden

Miguel A. Martínez 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

Angela García Bernardos
University of Barcelona, ETS - School of Social Work
Spain

Ángela García Bernardos is assistant professor of Social Work at the University of Barcelona. She is interested on urban social movements, housing policies and processes of housing exclusion. She has co-edited (with Joan Subirats) the book Innovación y Políticas urbanas (Icaria). She is also the author of: “La ciudad en disputa: crisis, modelos de ciudad y políticas urbanas en Barcelona” (Quid16. Revista del Área de Estudios Urbanos), “Cambio e Innovación en la Política de Vivienda” (in Navarro, C. ed. Los nuevos retos de las políticas urbanas, Tirant lo Blanch), and “Converging movements: occupations of squares and buildings” (in Tejerina, B. and Perugorría, I. eds. The 15M Movement. Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain, Routledge).