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Protest camps in international context : spaces, infrastructures and media of resistance /
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 underst...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | 1st |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.