| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 410 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 -- Present tents: Protest camps in the contemporary world -- Past tents: protest camps in historical perspective -- Conceptual frameworks for thinking about protest camps -- Aims and structure of the book -- Introduction to the book's themes -- Part One. Assembling and materialising -- 2. Introduction: assembling and materialising -- Introduction -- Tent monsters -- The chapters of Part One -- 3. Textile geographies, plasticity as protest -- Introduction -- Textile as protection -- Extension of bodies, body geography -- Textile, city, landscape and camp -- Textile as politics -- Plasticity politics -- 4. Emergent infrastructures: solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul's Gezi Park uprising -- Introduction -- From a tree to an uprising: a short overview -- Emergence of the protest camp in Gezi Park -- Gezi Park and not Taksim Square -- Spontaneous and heterogeneous: Gezi Park as an open and inclusive political space -- Radical infrastructures -- Conclusion -- 5. Protest spaces online and offline: the Indignant movement in Syntagma Square -- Introduction -- Defining space -- Space and contentious politics -- The Indignant movement in Syntagma Square -- Upper and Lower Square: the Dionysian and the Apollonian -- Syntagma Square as a centre of mediation and contentious activity -- Conclusion -- 6. Feeds from the square: live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps -- Introduction -- Protest camps between location and mediation -- Methodology -- The meaning of live feeds -- Live feeds in the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street -- Please do post me: live feeds and the new culture of transparency |
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Feeds for our 'closet supporters' -- The activist self-representation of protest space -- 7. Touching a nerve: a discussion on Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement -- Introduction -- Background -- Producing protest -- (Re)presenting the movement -- (Re)constructing everyday life in protest camps -- Embracing dissent -- Communications and conflicts -- Concluding remarks -- Part Two. Occupying and colonising -- 8. Introduction: occupying and colonising -- Introduction -- Ways of occupying -- Overview of the chapters -- 9. Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain -- Introduction -- Situating the climate camps -- Political tensions -- Camping as a political refrain -- Conclusion: metamorphosis? -- 10. Losing space in Occupy London: fetishising the protest camp -- Introduction -- Form, fetishism and institutionalisation -- Occupy London and the tactic of the protest camp -- Fetishising the protest camp -- Conclusion: the antagonistic form of the protest camp -- 11. Occupation, decolonisation and reciprocal violence, or history responds to Occupy's anti-colonial critics1 -- The wish -- The anti-colonial critique -- The occupation of Columbia University -- The occupation of Alcatraz -- Implications -- 12. Reoccupation and resurgence: Indigenous protest camps in Canada -- Introduction: a history of blockades -- Twenty-five years of reoccupations -- Resistance, resurgence, relationships: Indigenous reoccupations in action -- Activists and solidarity -- Conclusion: reflections on responsibility -- 13. Democratic deficit in the Israeli Tent Protests: chronicle of a failed intervention -- Introduction -- Mobilisation and early tensions -- Diving in -- Analysis: the failure of formal structures |
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14. Euromaidan and the echoes of the Orange Revolution: comparing social infrastructures and resistance practices of protest camps in Kiev (Ukraine) -- Introduction -- Appropriation of space, spatial practices and social transformations -- Representation of space: why Maidan? -- Analysing spatial practices: Orange Maidan versus Euromaidan -- New decision-making and resistance practices -- Conclusion -- 15. Civil/political society, protest and fasting: the case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India -- Introduction -- The Jan Lokpal campaign and Anna Hazare's August 2011 fast -- Situating Anna Hazare's fast as political practice -- The camp and civil society -- Conclusions -- Part Three. Reproducing and re-creating -- 16. Introduction: reproducing and re-creating -- Introduction -- A politics of social reproduction -- Chapters in Part Three -- 17. From 'refugee population' to political community: the Mustapha Mahmoud refugee protest camp -- Introduction -- The Sudanese diaspora and the refugee question in Egypt -- The protest camp location: contesting humanitarian space, forging solidarities -- Infrastructures of care beyond humanitarianism -- The camp's violent eviction and the legacy of the Mustapha Mahmoud protests -- Conclusions -- 18. The Marconi occupation in São Paulo, Brazil: a social laboratory of common life -- Introduction -- Right to the city: squatter and occupy movements in Brazil -- Marconi occupation as an urban protest camp -- Conclusion -- 19. From protest camp to tent city: the 'Free Cuvry' camp in Berlin-Kreuzberg -- Introduction -- Methods -- Protest camps between political action and social reproduction -- Life and politics in Kreuzberg -- Free Cuvry's emergence -- Making ends meet -- The Monday plenary -- The eviction -- Conclusion |
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20. Security is no accident: considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais1 -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Safer spaces policies -- Calais Migrant Solidarity and No Border camps -- Reflections on safety and space at the Calais No Border Camp -- Problematising the 'Feminist Security Group' and white women as bearers of morality -- Four considerations for safer spaces and migrant solidarity projects -- Conclusion -- 21. Political education in protest camps: spatialising dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City -- Introduction -- Placing activism, cultivating spaces of politics -- Protest camps as sites of learning -- Protest camps as sites at which lifecourses are given shape -- Protest camps as sites in which to generate solidarity -- Conclusion -- Part Four. Conclusion -- 22. Future tents: protest camps and social movement organisation -- Introduction -- Diversity and locality -- Travelling infrastructures -- Critical reflections on the protest camp form -- Trajectories for future research -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Jstor, viewed June 13, 2018) |
| Subject |
Protest camps.
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Protest movements -- Social aspects
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Demonstrations -- Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Protest camps
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Demonstrations
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Protest movements
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Politischer Protest
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Protestbewegung
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Zeltlager
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Soziale Bewegung
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Gavin (Lecturer in Human Geography), editor.
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Feigenbaum, Anna, editor.
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Frenzel, Fabian, 1975- editor.
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McCurdy, Patrick, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781447329435 |
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1447329430 |
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9781447329442 |
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1447329449 |
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9781447329459 |
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1447329457 |
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9781447329473 |
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1447329473 |
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