[ecrea] New book - "Protest Camps" - Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel & Patrick McCurdy

    Protest Camps

    Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel & Patrick McCurdy

    From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to 
the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of 
social movements' activism across the world. They are spaces where 
people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate 
contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. Drawing on 
over fifty different protest camps from around the world over the past 
fifty years, this book offers a ground-breaking and detailed 
investigation into protest camps from a global perspective - a story 
that, until now, has remained untold.

    Taking the reader on a journey across different cultural, political 
and geographical landscapes of protest, and drawing on a wealth of 
original interview material, the authors demonstrate that protest camps 
are unique spaces in which activists can enact radical and often 
experiential forms of democratic politics.


    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Chapter 1: Infrastructures and practices of protest camping
    Chapter 2: Media and communication infrastructures
    Chapter 3: Protest action infrastructures
    Chapter 4: Governance infrastructures
    Chapter 5: Re-creation Infrastructures
    Chapter 6: Alternative worlds

    Reviews

    'The phenomenon of protest camps is finally given the attention it 
deserves. With an international remit and a huge range of historical and 
contemporary examples, Feigenbaum, Frenzel and McCurdy provide a 
theoretically robust yet also highly readable and inspiring 
investigation of what protest camps are, do, achieve and challenge. What 
is more it is packed full of great photographs, cartoons and diagrams.' 
- Dr Jenny Pickerill, Reader in Environmental Geography, University of 
Leicester


    'Much has been written about recent protests as digital networks, 
but too little about the physical process of continuously occupying 
significant space. Feigenbaum, Frenzel and McCurdy's wonderful book 
brings a fresh perspective to our understanding of contemporary 
political action, connecting to the history of occupations from Greenham 
onwards and offering smart conceptual tools for analysing both recent 
and historical events in all their richness, messiness and hidden order. 
A fine achievement.' - Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and 
Political Science

    'An exciting, engaging and energizing book, Protest Camps is 
required reading for activists and academics interested in the history, 
politics and practice of the occupation of public space as a creative 
form of extra-parliamentary action.' - Sasha Roseneil, author of 
Disarming Patriarchy: feminism and political action at Greenham, 
Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Birkbeck University of London.

    'Analysing the global history and radical infrastructures of 
protest camps this book provides a captivating cartography that helps 
heal the chasm between how we live our everyday life and what our 
political ideas are, how we protest against the old world whilst 
proposing new ones. Best read (and discussed) around a (protest) camp 
fire.' John Jordan, artist, activist and co-founder of the direct action 
protest movement 'Reclaim the Streets'.


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Patrick McCurdy, Ph.D.
Professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor
Département de communication / Department of Communication
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
(patrick.mccurdy /at/ uOttawa.ca)
Web: http://www.communication.uottawa.ca/eng/faculty/mccurdy.html

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