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Chronotopic ruptures: (Dis)assembling Ljubljana’s Avtonomna Tovarna Rog

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This paper addresses the question of how the spatiotemporal processes of urban assemblages can be understood in the context of a controversial urban squat. We mobilise concepts of time and temporality and employ the notion of the chronotope as a methodological frame to rethink the politics of change...

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