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.
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Introduction: Past tents, present tents: On the importance of studying protest camps ~ Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick Mc Curdy;
Part 1: Assembling and Materializing;
Section Introduction: Assembling & materializing ~ Patrick Mc Curdy, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Gavin Brown;
Textile geographies, plasticity as protest ~ Anders Rubing;
Emergent infrastructures: Solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul’s Gezi Park uprising ~ Özge Yaka and Serhat Karakayali;
Protest spaces online and offline: The Indignant Movement in Syntagma Square ~ Anastasia Kavada and Orsalia Dimitriou;
Feeds from the square: Live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps ~ Paulo Gerbaudo;
Touching a nerve: A discussion on Hong Kong’s umbrella movement ~ Wang Jieying (Klavier), Hope Reidun St. John, and Wong Miu Yin (Eliz);
Part 2: Occupying and Colonizing;
Section Introduction: Occupying and colonizing ~ Gavin Brown, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick Mc Curdy and Anna Feigenbaum;
Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain ~ Bertie Russell, Raph Schlembach and Ben Lear;
Losing space in Occupy London: Fetishising the protest camp ~ Sam Halvorsen;
Occupation, decolonization, and reciprocal violence, or history responds to Occupy’s anti-colonial critics ~ A K Thompson;
Reoccupation and resurgence: Indigenous protest camps in Canada ~ Adam J. Barker and Russell Ross;
Democratic deficit in the Israeli tent protests: Chronicle of a failed intervention ~ Uri Gordon;
Euromaidan and the echoes of the Orange Revolution: Comparing social infrastructures and resistance practices of protest camps in Kiev (Ukraine) ~ Maryna Shevtsova;
Civil/political society, protest and fasting: The case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India ~ Andrew Davies;
Part 3: Reproducing and Re-creating;
Section Introduction: Reproducing and re-creating ~ Fabian Frenzel, Anna Feigenbaum, Patrick Mc Curdy and Gavin Brown;
From ‘refugee population’ to political community: The Mustapha Mahmoud refugee protest camp ~ Elisa Pascucci;
The Marconi Occupation in São Paulo, Brazil: A social laboratory of common life ~ Marcella Arruda;
From protest camp to tent city: The ‘Free Cuvry’ Camp in Berlin-Kreuzberg ~ Niko Rollmann and Fabian Frenzel;
Security is no accident: Considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais ~ Claire English;
Political education in protest camps: Spatializing dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City ~ Nicholas Jon Crane;
Part 4: Conclusion;
Future tents: Protest camps and social movement organisation ~ Fabian Frenzel, Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick Mc Curdy.
Sobre o autor
Patrick Mc Curdy (Ph D, LSE) is an Associate Professor in the Department Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada. His research draws from media and communication, journalism as well as social movement studies to study media as a site and source of social struggle and contestation. Most recently, Patrick has been studying the evolution of campaigning around the Canadian oil/tar sands. He tweets as @pmmcc.Mais ebooks do mesmo autor(es) / Editor
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