{"product_id":"precarious-lease-by-jacqueline-feldman-9781804271407","title":"Precarious Lease","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her extraordinary non-fiction debut, Jacqueline Feldman tells the story of Le Bloc, a legendary squat situated at the far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue begins. Opened in 2012, the squat took in artists and activists as well as immigrants from around the world. They lived and worked within its labyrinthine structure, continually threatened with eviction and existential as well as financial precarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver many years, Feldman, a reporter from the US, follows a cast of itinerant, displaced characters, tracing the fate of a counterculture under austerity while investigating the trending use of a legal device by which squatters could receive a reprieve from eviction but were reduced in status to property guardians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Walter Benjamin and other chroniclers of Paris, she draws on its revolutionary and bohemian history while sounding issues of the most contemporary urgency about hospitality and refuge, creativity and precarity, ecology and utopia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith gripping candour and journalistic precision, \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Lease\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling dramatization of late-stage possibilities for co-existence in the ruins of a capital city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845543186668,"sku":"9781804271407","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5f45524f7e9deb8f0a10dd57c6595fb8.jpg?v=1758964429","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/precarious-lease-by-jacqueline-feldman-9781804271407","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}