Protest Camps in International Context

Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance

Brown, Gavin, Feigenbaum, Anna, Brown, Gavin, Feigenbaum, Anna

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447329435
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change. Through a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies from five continents, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts. Whether erected in a park in Istanbul or a street in Mexico City, the significance of political encampments rests in their position as distinctive spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. Written by a wide range of experts in the field the book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.

Table of contents

• PROTEST CAMPS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
• Contents
• List of figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: past tents, present tents: on the importance of studying protest camps
• Part One. Assembling and materialising
• 2. Introduction: assembling and materialising
• 3. Textile geographies, plasticity as protest
• 4. Emergent infrastructures: solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul’s Gezi Park uprising
• 5. Protest spaces online and offline: the Indignant movement in Syntagma Square
• 6. Feeds from the square: live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps
• 7.Touching a nerve: a discussion on Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
• Part Two. Occupying and colonising
• 8. Introduction: occupying and colonising
• 9. Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain
• 10. Losing space in Occupy London: fetishising the protest camp
• 11. Occupation, decolonisation and reciprocal violence, or history responds to Occupy’s anti-colonial critics1
• 12. Reoccupation and resurgence: indigenous protest camps in Canada
• 13. Democratic deficit in the Israeli Tent Protests: chronicle of a failed intervention
• 14. Euromaidan and the echoes of the Orange Revolution: comparing social infrastructures and resistance practices of protest camps in Kiev (Ukraine)
• 15. Civil/political society, protest and fasting: the case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India
• Part Three. Reproducing and re-creating
• 16. Introduction: reproducing and re-creating
• 17. From ‘refugee population’ to political community: the Mustapha Mahmoud refugee protest camp
• 18. The Marconi occupation in São Paulo, Brazil: a social laboratory of common life
• 19. From protest camp to tent city: the ‘Free Cuvry’ camp in Berlin-Kreuzberg
• 20. Security is no accident: considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais1
• 21. Political education in protest camps: spatialising dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City
• Part Four. Conclusion
• 22. Future tents: protest camps and social movement organisation
• Index