ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how anti-fascists from the region successfully challenged fascist spatial claims in a series of confrontations around a yearly commemorative nationalist march with a strong neo-Nazi presence in the small university town of Lund in southernmost Sweden between 1991 and 2008. It explores how spatial claims are made and challenged as historically constructed and, parallel to the argument of Charles Tilly and S. G. Tarrow concerning repertoires of contention are shaped relationally in the dynamics between movements and authorities. The chapter examines the dynamics between different types of fascist and anti-fascist spatial claim-making and how different tactics have specific vulnerabilities that may be exploited by adversaries. It suggests that a typology of three different ways of challenging fascist claims – the blockade, the turf war and the disruption of space – and that these challenges may be understood as the product of struggles between anti-fascists, fascists and the police.
