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/anti-racist feminist literatures on domestic space and the gendered division of labour to help explain the persistence of inequalities and violence in protest camps and continuities with the wider neoliberal capitalist context. Reflecting on case studies of Occupy Glasgow and Faslane Peace Camp, Eschle calls for more caution in scholarly claims about protest camp autonomy from wider society. Anastasia Kavada’s subsequent chapter on camps and democracy offers what is perhaps a more hopeful reading through a feminist lens, with reference to interview-based research into the
of the 3/18 camp, mapping how men occupied the leadership and performance roles at centre stage, while women were largely relegated to work behind the scenes. Moreover, Eschle’s analysis of Occupy Glasgow and Faslane Peace Camp intimates that shifting ostensibly private and intimate aspects of life such as socialising and sleeping into public space can also have negative effects. It may actually make it harder for some overlapping groups of women to participate – those with caring responsibilities, precarious jobs, disabilities, or in an insecure relationship to
actually speaking. Catherine: There’s also something particularly immersive about the sound. There are parallels with a Glasgow Transport Museum exhibit that had a caravan from Faslane Peace Camp, 11 you could go inside and listen to a recording from someone who lived in the van, people talking, the campfire crackling. Kate: I think it shows how many of the interviews were so focused on life outdoors, survival outdoors was such a huge part of it, as if a primary memory was the fire, being outdoors and surviving. And the resilience it gave them to then
significant disadvantage for Scottish movements was that, notwithstanding the existence of certain Scottish-based initiatives, such as opposition to nuclear weapons stored in Faslane (Faslane Peace Camp, 1984), they were mostly enmeshed in Britain-wide networks and movements. This was particularly true for the Scottish trade union movement. Additionally, the disintegration of the previously hegemonic Labour Party in Scotland and the fragmentation of the parliamentary far left centred around the SSP ensured that the broader left-wing spectrum, parties and movements
