ABSTRACT
Returning back to some of the central questions that propelled the bringing together of these works and this research on law, space, protest, property and the commons, how does the performance of an alternative law create moments of the commons and why is this manifested in the occupation of time and space? What does this say about the state’s reaction of the state in the form of the criminali-sation of squatting, the privatisation of law, of housing and the illegalisation of occupation? What are the links between the criminalisation of squatting and recent occupation resistances, and how can a theory of social centre law be helpful to our understanding of them?
