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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking 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.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Feminism/Protest Camps - Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett Part 1: Gendered Power and Identities in Protest Camps 2. Safe Spaces and Solidarity: Confronting Gendered Violence in the US Occupy Encampments - Celeste Montoya 3. The Pu’u We Planted: (Re)birthing Refuge at Mauna Kea - Māhealani Ahia and Kahala Johnson 4. ‘You Can’t Kill the Spirit’ (But You Can Try): Gendered Contestations and Contradictions at Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp - Finn Mackay 5. Women Activists, Gendered Power and Postfeminism in Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ - Chia-Ling Yang Part 2: Feminist Politics in and through Protest Camps 6. The Feminist Movement in Turkey and the Women of the Gezi Park Protests - Yeşim Arat 7. Feminism and Protest Camps in Spain: From the Indignados to Feminist Encampments - Emma Gómez Nicolau 8. ‘Why the Compost Toilets?’: Ecofeminist (Re)Generations at the HoriZone Ecovillage - Joan Haran Part 3: Feminist Theorising and Protest Camps 9. Protest Camps as ‘Homeplace’? Social Reproduction in and against Neoliberal Capitalism - Catherine Eschle 10. Project Democracy in Protest Camps: Caring, the Commons and Feminist Democratic Theory - Anastasia Kavada 11. Feminised and Decolonising Reoccupations, Re-existencias and Escrevivências: Learning from Women’s Movement Collectives in Northeast Brazil - Sara C. Motta, Sandra Maria Gadelha de Carvalho, Claudiana Nogueira de Alcencar and Mila Nayane da Silva Part 4: The Feminist Afterlives of Protest Camps 12. Feminism on Aboriginal Land: The 1983 Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp, Central Australia - Alison Bartlett 13. Remembering an Eco/Feminist Peace Camp - Niamh Moore 14. US Occupy Encampments and Their Feminist Tensions: Archiving for Contemporary ‘Big-Tent’ Social Movements - Heather McKee Hurwitz and Anne Kumer 15. Greenham Women Everywhere: A Feminist Experiment in Recreating Experience and Shaping Collective Memory - Kate Kerrow, Rebecca Mordan, Vanessa Pini and Jill (Ray) Raymond, with Alison Bartlett and Catherine Eschle 16. Conclusion: Rethinking Protest Camps, Rethinking Feminism - Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett
