This ground-breaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism.
Drawing on case studies that range from Cold War women-only peace camps to more recent mixed-gender examples from around the world, diverse contributors reflect on the recurrence of gendered, racialised and heteronormative structures in protest camps, and their potency and politics as feminist spaces.
While developing an intersectional analysis of the possibilities and limitations of protest camps, this book also tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency. It will appeal to feminist theorists and activists, as well as to social movement scholars.
wandered into an enchanted forest. Jane Campbell 1 Love or its sister/ forces has stained Cumhuriyet Caddesi with blood but les pavés pressed hand to hand dry flowers become barricades, underneath, roots of the red apple. We aren’t static, aren’t mad. Come see what our revolution has done to us! Andrea Brady 2 This book asks feminist questions of protest camps. An increasingly important social movement tactic, protest camps are set up by activists as a temporary home in spaces that are politically useful, symbolically resonant or
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.
PART I Gendered Power and Identities in Protest Camps
PART II Feminist Politics in and through Protest Camps
The chapters we have collected here offer a polyphonic response to the feminist questions of protest camps we asked in the Introduction . They showcase a range of feminist theoretical and methodological frameworks that collectively reach towards a broadly intersectional or decolonial approach, along with case studies of camps from past and present, and from around the world. Notably, the chapters consider both Cold War western women-only peace camps and mixed-gender camps from the recent ‘global wave’ and beyond, previously studied in largely distinct sets of
393 TWENTY-TWO Future tents: protest camps and social movement organisation Fabian Frenzel, Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy Introduction This book has taken a journey through sites of protest across the world, attempting to understand better the place-based politics expressed in protest camps and related forms of occupation-based politics. The case studies in this book were organised into three sections that allowed exploration of some of the differing processes through which it is possible to discuss protest camps and their
1 ONE Introduction: past tents, present tents: on the importance of studying protest camps Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy Present tents: Protest camps in the contemporary world This book examines protest camps as a key expression of contemporary social movement politics. From Tahrir Square to Syntagma Square, from Wall Street to the London Stock Exchange, 2011 was not just the year of the protester, but also the year of the protest camp. From the squares of Spain to the streets of Hong Kong, protest camps are a tactic
