Protest Camps in International Context : : Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance /

Protest Camps in International Context : : Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance / / ed. by Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy.

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 interdisc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Arruda, Marcella,
Barker, Adam J,
Brown, Gavin,
Crane, Nicholas Jon,
Davies, Andrew,
Dimitriou, Orsalia,
English, Claire,
Feigenbaum, Anna,
Frenzel, Fabian,
Gerbaudo, Paolo,
Gordon, Uri,
Halvorsen, Sam,
John, Hope Reidun St,
Karakayali, Serhat,
Kavada, Anastasia,
Lear, Ben,
McCurdy, Patrick,
Pascucci, Elisa,
Rollmann, Niko,
Ross, Russell Myers,
Rubing, Anders,
Russell, Bertie,
Schlembach, Raphael,
Shevtsova, Maryna,
Thompson, AK,
Wang, Klavier Jieying,
Wong, Miu Yin Eliz,
Yaka, Özge,
HerausgeberIn:
Brown, Gavin,
Feigenbaum, Anna,
Frenzel, Fabian,
McCurdy, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: past tents, present tents: on the importance of studying protest camps
  • Assembling and materialising
  • Introduction: assembling and materialising
  • Textile geographies, plasticity as protest
  • Emergent infrastructures: solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul’s Gezi Park uprising
  • Protest spaces online and offline: the Indignant movement in Syntagma Square
  • Feeds from the square: live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps
  • Touching a nerve: a discussion on Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
  • Occupying and colonising
  • Introduction: occupying and colonising
  • Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain
  • Losing space in Occupy London: fetishising the protest camp
  • Occupation, decolonisation and reciprocal violence, or history responds to Occupy’s anti-colonial critics
  • Reoccupation and resurgence: indigenous protest camps in Canada
  • Democratic deficit in the Israeli Tent Protests: chronicle of a failed intervention
  • Euromaidan and the echoes of the Orange Revolution: comparing social infrastructures and resistance practices of protest camps in Kiev (Ukraine)
  • Civil/political society, protest and fasting: the case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India
  • Reproducing and re-creating
  • Introduction: reproducing and re-creating
  • From ‘refugee population’ to political community: the Mustapha Mahmoud refugee protest camp
  • The Marconi occupation in São Paulo, Brazil: a social laboratory of common life
  • From protest camp to tent city: the ‘Free Cuvry’ camp in Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • Security is no accident: considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais
  • Political education in protest camps: spatialising dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City
  • Conclusion
  • Future tents: protest camps and social movement organisation
  • Index

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