{"product_id":"protest-camps-in-international-context-9781447329428","title":"Protest Camps in International Context","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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 understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Since the proliferation of peace camps inspired by Greenham Common in the 1980s, the occupation of sites of political contestation has become a globally significant form of protest. This collection offers exciting and perceptive analyses of long-term site-specific political interventions around the world, and is a must-read for all those interested in social movements and contemporary politics.\" Sasha Roseneil, University of Essex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Past tents, present tents: On the importance of studying protest camps ~ Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy; Part 1: Assembling and Materializing; Section Introduction: Assembling \u0026amp; materializing ~ Patrick McCurdy, 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 McCurdy 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 ~ \tUri 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 McCurdy 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 McCurdy.","brand":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408500171095,"sku":"9781447329428","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447329428.jpg?v=1730503129","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/protest-camps-in-international-context-9781447329428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}